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Reputation: 5975

Git clone without including top/parent folder

We have a repo in git where the project is contained in a folder called Project. We'd like to be able to release the code to a production server, by cloning the repo, without including the "Project" folder, but with everything below it. Is this possible? The destination directory name is /var/www, which is unrelated to anything in the project. Unfortunately I can't just do a symbolic link because of the nature of our hosting provider (which we'll change soon).

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1801

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 11949

My answer take the assumption that you have a git repository whose content is the following:

/.gitignore 
/Project
/Project/index.php
/ProjectB
/ProjectB/pom.xml

If you don't need history at all in that copy of your repository, there is the git archive command which can do what you want except its output its data in tar or zip format:

git archive [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
              [-o <file> | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
              [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
              [<path>…]

Like:

git archive --format=zip [email protected] master -- Project | unzip

However, the git clone command does not accept a repository path, and I think it's not really git like to export only a tree view of some branch. You would probably need a submodule making Project an independent git repository, or like the git archive example, get only what you want but without versioning (which can be questionable on a production server).

Instead, you can do that:

  • Clone your repository to whatever path, say /opt/foobar.
  • Create a symbolic link of /opt/foobar/Project in /var/www.

Or reference the /opt/foobar/Project in your apache configuration (to avoid the symlink) instead of plain /var/www.

Upvotes: 2

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