Re: Splitting up a repository

> On 12/4/2010 1:09, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> 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).
>
> That's sort of spiffy, and I did not know about that. So again, thanks.
>
> That said, I did a bit of reading around, and I'm not sure it does what
> I need.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2336580/sparse-checkout-in-git-1-7-0
> is basically what I want, and the answers seem to indicate it isn't
> possible. (In other words, in my example, when I want a checkout of
> repo/foo, the .git directory needs to be a sibling of foo's contents,
> not a sibling of foo.)