From: Alex <ajb44.geo@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:56:22 GMT
Subject: Re: question (possibly) on git subtree/submodules
Message-ID: <loom.20100727T125434-697@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C49C9C6.3080409@gmail.com>

Chris Packham <judge.packham <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The short answer is no. Nothing git has currently will let you clone a
> subset of files. 

Isn't that what 'sparse checkout' does?
(http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout)

Alex