From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
When someone wants to clone a large repository, but plans to work
using a sparse-checkout file, they either need to do a full
checkout first and then reduce the patterns they included, or
clone with --no-checkout, set up their patterns, and then run
a checkout manually. This requires knowing a lot about the repo
shape and how sparse-checkout works.
Add a new '--sparse' option to 'git clone' that initializes the
sparse-checkout file to include the following patterns:
/*
!/*/*
These patterns include every file in the root directory, but
no directories. This allows a repo to include files like a
README or a bootstrapping script to grow enlistments from that
point.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-clone.txt | 8 +++++++-
builtin/clone.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 34011c2940..0fe91d2f04 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--dissociate] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>]
[--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--no-tags]
[--recurse-submodules[=<pathspec>]] [--[no-]shallow-submodules]
- [--[no-]remote-submodules] [--jobs <n>] [--] <repository>
+ [--[no-]remote-submodules] [--jobs <n>] [--sparse] [--] <repository>
[<directory>]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
used, neither remote-tracking branches nor the related
configuration variables are created.
+--sparse::
+ Initialize the sparse-checkout file so the working
+ directory starts with only the files in the root
+ of the repository. The sparse-checkout file can be
+ modified to grow the working directory as needed.
+
--mirror::
Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies `--bare`.
Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` not only maps local branches of the
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index f665b28ccc..d6d49a73ff 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ static const char *real_git_dir;
static char *option_upload_pack = "git-upload-pack";
static int option_verbosity;
static int option_progress = -1;
+static int option_sparse_checkout;
static enum transport_family family;
static struct string_list option_config = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
static struct string_list option_required_reference = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
@@ -147,6 +148,8 @@ static struct option builtin_clone_options[] = {
OPT_PARSE_LIST_OBJECTS_FILTER(&filter_options),
OPT_BOOL(0, "remote-submodules", &option_remote_submodules,
N_("any cloned submodules will use their remote-tracking branch")),
+ OPT_BOOL(0, "sparse", &option_sparse_checkout,
+ N_("initialize sparse-checkout file to include only files at root")),
OPT_END()
};
@@ -734,6 +737,27 @@ static void update_head(const struct ref *our, const struct ref *remote,
}
}
+static int git_sparse_checkout_init(const char *repo)
+{
+ struct argv_array argv = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
+ int result = 0;
+ argv_array_pushl(&argv, "-C", repo, "sparse-checkout", "init", NULL);
+
+ /*
+ * We must apply the setting in the current process
+ * for the later checkout to use the sparse-checkout file.
+ */
+ core_apply_sparse_checkout = 1;
+
+ if (run_command_v_opt(argv.argv, RUN_GIT_CMD)) {
+ error(_("failed to initialize sparse-checkout"));
+ result = 1;
+ }
+
+ argv_array_clear(&argv);
+ return result;
+}
+
static int checkout(int submodule_progress)
{
struct object_id oid;
@@ -1107,6 +1131,9 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (option_required_reference.nr || option_optional_reference.nr)
setup_reference();
+ if (option_sparse_checkout && git_sparse_checkout_init(repo))
+ return 1;
+
remote = remote_get(option_origin);
strbuf_addf(&default_refspec, "+%s*:%s*", src_ref_prefix,
diff --git a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
index 35ab84aabd..b7d5f15830 100755
--- a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
+++ b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
@@ -87,4 +87,17 @@ test_expect_success 'init with existing sparse-checkout' '
test_cmp expect dir
'
+test_expect_success 'clone --sparse' '
+ git clone --sparse repo clone &&
+ git -C clone sparse-checkout list >actual &&
+ cat >expect <<-EOF &&
+ /*
+ !/*/*
+ EOF
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ ls clone >dir &&
+ echo a >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect dir
+'
+
test_done
\ No newline at end of file
--
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