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Re: Splitting up a repository

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2010, 07:09 UTC
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On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
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> Say I have a repo where there are directories repo/foo, repo/bar,
> repo/baz. 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz' are loosely related -- closely enough
> that I put them together initially, but loosely enough that I now wish I
> could check out just 'repo/foo'. Since Git doesn't support partial
> checkouts (a bit annoying!),

Um.. it does support partial checkouts (check out man page of git-read-tree, sparse checkout section). But you must do a full clone (i.e. your repository will have bar and baz, even if you only checkout foo).

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Duy
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