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Interesting. I've been wanting something like that for submodules. Can the two features be combined? For instance, if you need a single file/directory from another project in your repository.
The last time this happened to me, I took it as a hint that I had split the repositories along the wrong lines. The repos should probably be either merged or divided further to prevent this.
Also, would emulating this command with a repo of submodules not work?
Interesting. I've been wanting something like that for submodules. Can the two features be combined? For instance, if you need a single file/directory from another project in your repository.
> For instance, if you need a single file/directory from another project in your repository. The last time this happened to me, I took it as a hint that I had split the repositories along the wrong lines. The repos should probably be either merged or divided further to prevent this.
Interesting. I've been wanting something like that for submodules. Can the two features be combined? For instance, if you need a single file/directory from another project in your repository.
Basically sparse checkout only populates the tree for the dependencies we want, and then git-lfs will only download the binaries that are present in the current worktree.
Works out pretty well.
Keep in mind though that sparse checkout still has the entire repository loaded in the `.git` object store, it just doesn't expose it in the worktree.
I have to tell it which directories I want? That seems like work the tool could do. Also, the granularity should be at the file level, not directory.
sparse-checkout, partial-clone, and shallow seem like decent building blocks to make working with very large repos tractable in git. At the same time, the features and their interaction are pretty complicated, so I believe we'll need good "porcelain" abstractions over these building blocks to make the workflow reasonable for average users.
If we're talking project-wide repos rather than entire-org repos, I'd wager the vast majority of projects can use monorepos without special git tooling, and will retain huge productivity benefits vs app/package-per-repo organisation.
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411126
[3]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-o...
Interesting. I've been wanting something like that for submodules. Can the two features be combined? For instance, if you need a single file/directory from another project in your repository.
At my work we use sparse checkout and lfs on our binary dependencies submodule to pull in only the binaries that we need for the current platform (i.e. linux or windows) Basically sparse checkout only populates the tree for the dependencies we want, and then git-lfs will only download the binaries that are present in the current worktree. Works out pretty well. Keep in mind though that sparse checkout still has the e…
> This combination speeds up the data transfer process since you don’t need every reachable Git object, and instead, can download only those you need to populate your cone of the working directory
If you're only downloading what you need to populate the working directory how is it that `.git` will have the entire repository?
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At my work we use sparse checkout and lfs on our binary dependencies submodule to pull in only the binaries that we need for the current platform (i.e. linux or windows) Basically sparse checkout only populates the tree for the dependencies we want, and then git-lfs will only download the binaries that are present in the current worktree. Works out pretty well. Keep in mind though that sparse checkout still has the e…
Are you sure about that? > This combination speeds up the data transfer process since you don’t need every reachable Git object, and instead, can download only those you need to populate your cone of the working directory If you're only downloading what you need to populate the working directory how is it that `.git` will have the entire repository?
Edit:
wrowclif@wrowclif-desktop:~/Taccs2/p5_deps$ git grep "def returnValue"
twisted/install_linux_gcc54/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py:1350:def returnValue(val):
twisted/install_linux_gcc54/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/test/test_win32events.py:66: def returnValueOccurred(self):
twisted/install_win64_vc141/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py:1350:def returnValue(val):
twisted/install_win64_vc141/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/test/test_win32events.py:66: def returnValueOccurred(self):
twisted/vendor_base/src/twisted/internet/defer.py:1350:def returnValue(val):
twisted/vendor_base/src/twisted/internet/test/test_win32events.py:66: def returnValueOccurred(self):
wrowclif@wrowclif-desktop:~/Taccs2/p5_deps$ ls ./twisted/
install_linux_gcc54