# Partial clone/pull?

2 messages from 2010-07-20 to 2010-07-20. Participants: Dread Quixadhal, Avery Pennarun.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24450

## Dread Quixadhal, 2010-07-20 22:15

Subject: Partial clone/pull?
Message-ID: <29220205.post@talk.nabble.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/29220205.post%40talk.nabble.com

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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, 2010-07-20 22:38

Subject: Re: Partial clone/pull?
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Dread Quixadhal <quixadhal@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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

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