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Partial clone/pull?

Subject: Partial clone/pull?

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Dread Quixadhal· Jul 20, 2010, 22:15 UTC · lore

I have a local git repository of a server project that I'd like to distribute. However, I don't want to distribute EVERY file in the repository, but I *would* like to distribute the full set of changes for those files I do plan to release.

I'm having some trouble figuring out how to do this. I assumed I'd create a new repository and then use git pull to merge the directories I want in my distribution repository. I can't seem to find a way to specify what files I want though.

Let's say I had a repository called stuff, with directories a, b, and c. I want to make a distribution repository containing just a and b, but with full histories so a "git pull" will sync from the stuff repository, but ignore the "c" directory.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Avery Pennarun· Jul 20, 2010, 22:38 UTC · re: Dread Quixadhal · lore

Re: Partial clone/pull?

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Dread Quixadhal <quixadhal@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I'm having some trouble figuring out how to do this.  I assumed I'd create a
> new repository and then use git pull to merge the directories I want in my
> distribution repository.  I can't seem to find a way to specify what files I
> want though.
>
> Let's say I had a repository called stuff, with directories a, b, and c.  I
> want to make a distribution repository containing just a and b, but with
> full histories so a "git pull" will sync from the stuff repository, but
> ignore the "c" directory.

This is not a particularly easy thing to do in git. git-subtree is a partial solution: http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree

Have fun,

Avery