From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:09:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Splitting up a repository
Message-ID: <AANLkTikqnnOLN=asPUKK0zYxYK9VWXcZPBPtwMZ3z-cr@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CF9D15D.7090001@cs.wisc.edu>

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 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).
-- 
Duy