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In Windows Git Sparse Checkout does not work as expected and downloads unwanted files
I have a folder structure in a Git Repo like the following:
.
└── top_level/
├── invalid_file_names/
│ ├── <?>.txt
│ └── <<>>?.txt
└── valid_files/
├── ...
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Git push sparse repository
I'm trying to customize a small part of a big repository, then have my customization pushed into a GitHub repository.
I've followed sparse cloning instructions to have the first stage done. Committed ...
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Is it possible to push git sparse-checkout settings, so every team member has the same settings by default?
I am currently introducing a library from repository "B" to repository "A" as a submodule.
The Repository "B" referred to as a submodule includes additional test code and ...
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Integrating Specific Subfolder from One Git Repository into Another Without Full Clone
I'm currently working on a project where I need to integrate a specific subfolder (folder F) from a repository (RepoA) into another repository (RepoB). I tried using git subtree and submodules, but ...
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Git checkout with exclusions fails when branch isn't local
I'm trying to checkout a branch, but want to exclude the REAMDE.md and CHANGELOG.md files.
Working:
git clone [url] --no-checkout .
git checkout BranchnameA
git checkout BranchnameB # (any other ...
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When doing a shallow git clone, how to limit git blame to the depth of the clone?
I have a short-lived process which does a shallow clone (e.g. git clone --depth 50 <repo>) of a huge repo with ancient history.
Part of the process, in some conditions, it uses runs git blame on ...
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How to use git sparse-checkout with multiple matching patterns
I'm using git sparse-checkout to have only the files I'm interested in on disk. I'm unable to figure out how to match multiple patterns.
git sparse-checkout set --no-cone "**/*.tf"
Checkout ...
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How to undo git sparse-checkout add
Let's say I did a sparse checkout of a partial clone to not get everything from a big Git repo:
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://example.com/url/of/my/repo.git
cd repo
git sparse-checkout ...
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Clone a subdirectory from github using git
In git I want to download a folder from a Github repository and add it to a subdirectory in my repo like so:
repo/folder/subfolder/
repo/folder/subfolder/clonedfolder //cloned folder from git hub
But ...
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Git sparse checkout^ some root folders fully recursive, some other root folders without subfolders
I use git 2.40 and I have repo folder structure like this:
└── root_dir1
│ ├── dir11
│ │ └── file11
│ │
│ └── dir12
│ │ └── file12
│ │
│ └── file13
│
└── root_dir2
...
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Jenkins Git Sparsecheckout multiple repositories
I'm trying to setup a shared library within Jenkins that would have multiple git repositories and then multiple directory paths? Is this even possible? I've looked around a bit and the example's I ...
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How to prevent git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse from downloading files on the root directory?
As explained at How do I clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository? the best way I've found so far to download all files in a Git subdirectory only is:
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --...
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failed to initialize sparse-checkout
I'm getting the below error when i try to clone a folder "banana" from git repository using sparse filter;
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/gitexpert/...
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how to clone specific folder from git using --sparse
git version 2.25.1
I'm trying to clone only a specific directory from the git repository using the below command ;
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/gitexpert/...
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git sparse-checkout existing repo serially
Here is what I am doing
First sparse-check-out
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https:<repo_path>
cd ./<local_repo_path>
git sparse-checkout init --cone
git sparse-...
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Why can't I disable the sparse-checkout of Git?
I cloned a repository and found that it has the "SPARSE" after "master". I am not so familiar with git, so I search it in the official document, which says that I can disable it by ...
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Git "error : invalid path" during git checkout
When I'm trying to checkout to another branch from cmd:
git checkout Datascience_With_Python --
this error is occuring:
error: invalid path 'Datascience_With_Python/Machine Learning/Tutorials/Steps ...
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How to use git sparse-checkout in 2.25 and not checkout everything
So after trying multiple tutorials, questions/answers I am still not able to get git sparse-checkout working on Windows 10 with git 2.25
Background
Our repo moved from perforce to git recently and now ...
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Git Sparse checkout during Azure pipelines taking ~15 minutes
We have a single repo of our source code which if downloaded is around 2.8GB. We have 4 self hosted agents and over 100 build pipelines. With that, it is not feasible to download the entire source ...
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Can sparse-checkout patterns be added to .gitmodules?
Let's say I have a git submodule and I want to to enable sparse-checkout on it. Is it possible to do so and add that file to the repository for other people that clone? The git submodule gets added to ...
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Sparse checkout but exclude or ignore files in root?
The docs for git sparse-checkout state,
By default, when running git sparse-checkout init, the root directory is added as a parent pattern. At this point, the sparse-checkout file contains the ...
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Jenkins git checkout - place .git folder in another place
We make a deploy to client's folder at client's server using Jenkins via VPN of several git repos. I've set the "Check out to a sub-directory option" and "Sparse checkout".
We need ...
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Sparse-checkout in git v28.0.0?
In git 26.0.2 I was able to perform these steps:
git worktree add --no-checkout ../test_git26 git26
cd ../test_git26
git sparse-checkout init --con
git sparse-checkout set Q/
ls
This ended nicely ...
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git sparse-checkout ignore specific file type
I have a git repository with a bunch of large csv in them, which I don't want to clone, so I came across git sparse-checkout and this post: https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-...
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git sparse checkout - can't abort merge
Using git 2.25.1
Used git sparse-checkout init/set to setup sparsecheckout.
Now I'm in situation that i need to abort merge.
Tried:
git merge --abort
Entry 'QStreams_xxx/infra/QPrism/Qpvc/...
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How do I clone, fetch or sparse checkout a single directory or a list of directories from git repository?
How do I clone, fetch or sparse checkout a single file or directory or a list of files or directories from a git repository avoiding downloading the entire history or at least keeping history download ...
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Git sparse checkout error "Entry 'path/to/file' not update. Cannot update sparse checkout"
I've just done a sparse checkout following the steps below
git clone http://location/repo.git
# create .git/info/sparse-checkout file
git config --bool core.sparsecheckout true
git read-tree -mu HEAD
...
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Asking git to ignore a folder that other people check code into [duplicate]
I'm working on a huge, sprawling, corporate git repo that lots of other people check code into. There are huge folders in it that are of no interest to me at all. I don't read or write code there, and ...
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Git Sparse checkout ignore a bad directory
I have a directory name "[afdsklj]" in my git repo. It seems that git sparse checkout still gives me fatal error invalid argument when it tries to create the new directory. Is there someway to have ...
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Sparse checkouts - how does it works
I've been looking for a way to clone only a sub directory of one of my project. Obviously I found this answer. it is well designed and the step-by-step solution explain well how to implement this. Now ...
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Git checkout single directory through Chef
Is there a way of doing an sparse checkout with Chef and its git resource? Or what is the best way to accomplish the equivalent of that?
As doing a sparse checkout requires modifying a file in the ....
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How to do submodule sparse-checkout with Git?
There are a lot of articles and SO questions about sparse-checkout. Unfortunately I did not find concrete examples. I would like to get this following example work:
Create a submodule
cd ~
mkdir sub ...
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Git copy only specific files from remote
I am trying to understand how (and if it is possible) to copy only specific files of a specific directory from remote in Git. (not interested in continuing working on those files or getting the ...
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Git - Sparse checkout of submodule doesn't clone?
We have a submodule in our super project. That submodule uses a sparse checkout (think of the submodule as a large core library where we choose which parts are necessary for the current project). ...
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Checkout a Specific Folder within a Git Repository
I have multiple projects in different repositories:
tools
thirdparty
shared
├──Common
├──Exceptions
multimedia
├──VolumeControl
├──VideoRenderer
android
├──Audio
For example, android depends on ...
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How can I sparse checkout a subdirectory from git without checking out its parent directories?
I am trying to sparse-checkout a subdirectory from my git repository.
The repository contains multiple plugins for wordpress and I want to check them out one by one. With the below posted solutions I ...
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Is it possible to do a sparse checkout without checking out the whole repository first?
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 ...
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Retrieve a single file from a repository
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 ...
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