# Fw: Error on git clone

1 messages from 2010-10-06 to 2010-10-06. Participants: Hocapito Cheteamo.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25369

## Hocapito Cheteamo, 2010-10-06 20:03

Subject: Fw: Error on git clone
Message-ID: <961094.44125.qm@web114619.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/961094.44125.qm%40web114619.mail.gq1.yahoo.com

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Hi Hannes,

I'd like to follow up on your recommendation of using sparse checkout to resolve 
that CR-in-directory-name problem.

According to my upstream, they can't change that directory name.  It works fine 
on all their Mac systems.  I'm the first one using the PC system.  So I have to 
resort to the sparse checkout.

This is what I did:
1. Created a file .git/info/sparse-checkout that contains these lines:
*
!title_add_tags_to.png
!title_tagging.png

The above two files are the only ones that are listed in that problematic 
directory name "public/images/tagging\rtagging/".

2. To enable sparsecheckout, modified file .git/config:
[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = false
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    symlinks = false
    ignorecase = true
    hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly
    sparsecheckout = true  <------- added this line
[remote "origin"]
    url = git@github.com:XXX/YYY.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

Then I issued the command
$ git checkout -b master origin/master
Checking out files: 100% (937/937), done.
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Already on 'master'

Voila, it works.  That "tagging\rtagging/" directory was not created in folder 
"public/images/".

Thanks.
Hoca


      

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