Re: partial checkouts

2009/5/24 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref]:

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Chani [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

checking out the entire git repo isn't really feasible, because once KDE
finishes switching to git that'll mean checking out all of KDE.
I don't think that turning every doc folder into a submodule is feasible,
either - they sound kinda awkward to work with, and I can imagine lots of
people getting confused and messing them up...

If you don't mind cloning the entire git repo (which may be quite
large in KDE case, I guess), then you may want to try "sparse
checkout". The patch series is available as a topic branch "tp/sco" in
this branch:

http://repo.or.cz/w/git/pclouds.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/inst

Or I can send the patch series to you. It lets you specify what part
of the tree you want to checkout.

I recall following this series when you first announced it.  Do you
have any plans to try and get it included in mainline?  ISTR there was
some more work needed to be done on it before then.

-- Thomas Adam