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Jader Dias
Jader Dias

Reputation: 90475

How to make a git sparse checkout without having the whole repository in git/objects/pack?

Our .git/objects/pack directory is quite big and I would like to have a sparse checkout with the least possible disk space consumed.

Is it possible to make a sparse checkout and avoid having this directory and all its contents?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 508

Answers (2)

Andrew C
Andrew C

Reputation: 14843

Your question doesn't make a lot of sense as written. You are talking about the size of the objects pack file being large (which is a case of the repository history being big), but then you are talking about sparse checkout - which has to do with working directory space, and not repository space. You can have massive repository objects but a tiny working directory.

The git clone --depth answer already provided covers repository.

If you really want to do something goofy with your checkout operation I would try the following three commands 

git read-tree --reset
git read-tree HEAD:<path to folder you are interested in>
git checkout-index

This should get you just a single directory in your working directory. You wouldn't be able to make a (useful) commit though, you'd have to manually create tree objects and manually create commits.

Upvotes: 2

forvaidya
forvaidya

Reputation: 3315

git clone --depth

Note: Shallow clones can't be used for Pushing anything as you will get Fast-Forward error

Upvotes: 0

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