An extra point is that what Git downloads is not the raw copies of the
files. Rather it is a well compacted version of all the files and version
data.
As long as the repository does not have very large or binary files, the
compaction is better than simple zip archives because all the files are
compacted _together_ so common text and spaces between files is noticed and
'removed'.
So you should find the initial shallow clone to be quite quick.
Philip
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Djordjevic" <[email protected]>
Hi Michael,
On top of what Philip already mentioned about shallow clone (in case you
don`t need history), you can also use "sparse checkout"[1]
<https://git-scm.com/docs/git-read-tree#_sparse_checkout> for the case you
don`t need all the files, either. An example:
git clone --no-checkout --depth 1 https://github.com/gnustep/gap.git
cd gap
git config core.sparseCheckout true
echo "user-apps/FlexiSheet/*" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git checkout
Note that you still *do have *all the files inside ".git" folder, just not
checked out... One of the core Git philosophies is that project repository
contains everything, and you get (to work with) everything, being a major
drawback in working with huge repositories - but there`s work in progress
in that regards, which is what Philip also addresses in second part of his
message :)
Regards, Buga
[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-read-tree#_sparse_checkout
On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 12:25:14 AM UTC+1, Michael Gersten wrote:
Is there a way to get a partial repository, such as
https://github.com/gnustep/gap/tree/master/user-apps/FlexiSheet
without getting every app there?
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