Sparse checkout in Git 1.7.0?

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You still need to clone the whole repository, which will have all the files. You could use the --depth flag to only retrieve a limited amount of history.

Once the repository is cloned, the read-tree trick limits your “view” of the repository to only those files or directories that are in the .git/info/sparse-checkout file.

I wrote a quick script to help manage the sparseness, since at the moment it is a bit unfriendly:

#!/bin/sh
echo > .git/info/sparse-checkout
for i in "$@"
do
    echo "$i" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
done
git read-tree -m -u HEAD

If you save this script as git-sparse.sh into the path reported by calling git --exec-path, then you can run git sparse foo/ bar/ to only “checkout” the foo and bar directories, or git sparse '*' to get everything back again.

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