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FR: Clone just the desired subdirectory

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LPLaszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us>
Date
Jun 25, 2010, 14:24 UTC
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Hi,

Is there a way to clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded/recipes/qt4, not the whole repository ?

I have just tried this command, but it doesn't service the capable habit: git clone --depth 1 git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded/

I have seen on a good feature in case gitorious where you can select a folder to download in a compressed format (*.tar.gz for instance). Can it be implemented in case git 'backend' ?

My friend asked it from me, but I couldn't advise anything to him, but this request does make sense by me. So he would like to download a part of a git repository and he is not interested in the index and the history, so it would be nice to have something like git archive --remote or similar command which can do this operation.

Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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  1. Laszlo PappJun 25, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierJun 25, 2010
  3. Björn SteinbrinkJun 25, 2010

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