I’m working with a repository with a very large number of files that takes hours to checkout. I’m looking into the possibility of whether Git would work well with this kind of repository now that it supports sparse checkouts but every example that I can find does the following: git clone <path> git config core.sparsecheckout … Read more
UPDATE²: With Git 2.23 (August 2019), there’s a new command git restore that does this, see the accepted answer. UPDATE: This will work more intuitively as of Git 1.8.3, see my own answer. Imagine the following use case: I want to get rid of all changes in a specific subdirectory of my Git working tree, … Read more
What is the most efficient mechanism (in respect to data transferred and disk space used) to get the contents of a single file from a remote git repository? So far I’ve managed to come up with: git clone –no-checkout –depth 1 [email protected]:foo/bar.git && cd bar && git show HEAD:path/to/file.txt This still seems overkill. What about … Read more
How do I checkout just one file from a git repo? 22 s 22 First clone the repo with the -n option, which suppresses the default checkout of all files, and the –depth 1 option, which means it only gets the most recent revision of each file git clone -n git://path/to/the_repo.git –depth 1 Then check … Read more
I have my Git repository which, at the root, has two sub directories: /finisht /static When this was in SVN, /finisht was checked out in one place, while /static was checked out elsewhere, like so: svn co svn+ssh://[email protected]/home/admin/repos/finisht/static static Is there a way to do this with Git? 2 25 What you are trying to … Read more
