Re: [PATCH] clone: allow initial sparse checkouts
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Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
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- Feb 23, 2014, 07:32 UTC
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 09:52:16AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
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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.
Yes, I think there are a few more ways, but still would be nice to
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> > > 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.
How much demand for taking a file of rules, and opinions of syntax to do that vs specify on the commandline?
--sparse-checkout-from FILE vs. --sparse-checkout '<PATH' or something other prefix character.
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