On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Ari Entlich <atrig...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > Hello all! > > At my current workplace, I have a git-svn repository which has an extremely > large working directory. I did not use the --stdlayout option in this clone, > so I have a number of branches in my working directory which duplicate large > amounts of trunk. There is a particularly large subdirectory which has now > been copied to branches four times (and hence shows up in my working > directory 5 times). This directory and its copies are making up the vast > majority of the files and storage space in my working directory. Furthermore, > I do not need or want to have access to the data in these particular > directories. Hence, I would like to use the sparse checkouts feature to > exclude them from my working directory. > > Let's say that these directories are all called "thedir". What I would like > to do with the sparse checkouts feature is to simply ignore directories with > this name anywhere in the working tree. Intuitively, it seems like I should > be able to put: > > !thedir > > or possibly > > !thedir/ >
I think this should work (but I haven't tested it) / !thedir The first rule is to include all, the we exclude what we don't want using the second one (trailing slash or not is ok). > in the sparse-checkout file, but these don't seem to work. I've tried a > number of other things, but I always seem to either get the "sparse checkout > leaves no entry on working directory" error or no effect at all. In the end, > I basically just don't really understand how this file is supposed to work, > so I'd rather get some expert help here rather than thrashing about randomly. > I realize that sparse checkouts is usually used to select a specific > directory rather than what I'm trying to do, so I accept that what I want may > simply not be possible with the current implementation. I've asked on IRC, > but I wanted to ask here also since it seemed that most of the people I > talked to weren't that familiar with the sparse checkouts feature. > > Note that, while using --stdlayout would mitigate the massive working > directory somewhat, I would still probably want to exclude this directory > from my worktree. I will probably do a reclone at some point and use > --stdlayout, but I will still want to exclude this particular directory even > at that point. I had a lot of people on IRC telling me to just use > --stdlayout, which was a good suggestion, but didn't fully fulfill my needs. > > Thanks! > > Ari > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
