Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Add possibility to clone specific subdirectories

2016-07-29 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Duy Nguyen writes: > >>> 4. Fsck complains about missing blobs. Should be fairly easy to fix. >> >> Not really. You'll have to associate path information with blobs >> before you decide that a blob

Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Add possibility to clone specific subdirectories

2016-07-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Duy Nguyen writes: >> 4. Fsck complains about missing blobs. Should be fairly easy to fix. > > Not really. You'll have to associate path information with blobs > before you decide that a blob should exist or not. Also the same blob or the tree can exist both inside and

Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Add possibility to clone specific subdirectories

2016-07-28 Thread Duy Nguyen
Corrections.. On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > Ah.. this is what I call narrow checkout [1] (but gmane is down at the moment) s/checkout/clone/ > [2] https://github.com/pclouds/git/commits/lanh/narrow-checkout s,lanh/,, -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Add possibility to clone specific subdirectories

2016-07-28 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Robin Ruede wrote: > This patch series adds a `--sparse-prefix=` option to multiple commands, > allowing fetching repository contents from only a subdirectory of a remote. > > This works along with sparse-checkout, and is especially useful for