Bruno De Bondt <bruno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Just started using Git, coming from SVN. > > Something I regularly do in SVN, is checking out part of a repository, > instead of the complete repository. On the other hand in SVN you have multiple projects in a single repository (under single repository hierarchy / svnroot). > Consider the following: I have a local repository for > development. On my testing server, I only (SVN) check out part of > this repository, eg. the document root of a website (and not all the > project management documents, which are in the same SVN repository, > but not needed on the testing server). > > How would I do this in Git, ie. only get a specific part of a > repository? I feel that this is very much against the whole idea of Git > (where, as far as I understand Git now, you work with complete clones of > repositories), but is there a way to do this? Or should I just clone > complete repositories on my testing server as well? In this case it would be possible, I think, to put project management documents and website itself in different git repositories, and toe them together using submodules (see git-submodule manpage, and documentation on Git Wiki and elsewhere). There is support in git nowadays (acquired quire recently) to *checkout* only part of repository (so called "sparse checkout"), but you still need to clone whole repository. There was some proof-of-concept work on *partial clone* support; see git mailing list archives. This is nevertheless quote hard problem to solve correctly. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html