On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 09:52:16AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Presently if you want to perform a sparse checkout, you must either do a > > full clone and then recheckout, or do a git init, manually set up > > sparse, and then fetch and checkout. > I think you could do "clone -n" (no checkout), set up sparse, then checkout. Yes, I think there are a few more ways, but still would be nice to > > > This patch implements easily accessible sparse checkouts during clone, > > in the --sparse-checkout option. > > > > $ git clone REPO --sparse-checkout PATH > Or take a file as input if there are lots of paths/rules. How much demand for taking a file of rules, and opinions of syntax to do that vs specify on the commandline? --sparse-checkout-from FILE vs. --sparse-checkout '<PATH' or something other prefix character. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 -- 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