From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 02:52:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: allow initial sparse checkouts
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BKJ4HzXLcajC8cXviD4hboRPOYhWSen7H5Ta=_JuXNjw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1393122713-4308-1-git-send-email-robbat2@gentoo.org>

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