Hello, We are migrating from SVN to GitHub version control system. As we have a huge repository, I'm trying to git sparse-checkout feature to checkout and download the specific folder from the repo instead of cloning entire repo every time.
Here are the steps that I have performed to do sparse clone to my local: # Create a directory, so Git doesn't get messy, and enter it 1. mkdir my-dir && cd my-dir # Start a Git repository 2. git init # Track repository, do not enter subdirectory 3. git remote add -f origin https://github.com/terroo/fonts/ # Enable the tree check feature 4. git config core.sparseCheckout true # setting up the folder structure that is needed to checkout 5. git sparse-checkout set /path/to/directory ## Download with pull, not clone 6. git pull origin <branch> Expected result: It need to download only the /path/to/directory to the local Actual Result: It downloads the respective /path/to/directory but not downloading the lfs file which are stored in that /path/to/directory I'm trying several ways to handle these lfs files using *git lfs pull *but it is scanning entire repo instead of the /path/to/directory mentioned and pulls all the files which is taking huge amount of time and fails with errors. Any suggestions on handling the LFS files using the git sparse-checkout ? Appreciate your help..!!! Thanks in advance, Vinay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/e4357ec5-ed7f-4473-9f51-7f6b8770f0c9n%40googlegroups.com.
