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Re: [PATCH] clone: allow initial sparse checkouts

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 23, 2014, 02:52 UTC
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Presently if you want to perform a sparse checkout, you must either do a
> full clone and then recheckout, or do a git init, manually set up
> sparse, and then fetch and checkout.
I think you could do "clone -n" (no checkout), set up sparse, then checkout.
> This patch implements easily accessible sparse checkouts during clone,
> in the --sparse-checkout option.
>
> $ git clone REPO --sparse-checkout PATH
Or take a file as input if there are lots of paths/rules.
-- 
Duy
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