无法检出git目录

Question

I am trying to clone a git subdirectory

https://github.com/graphlab-code/graphlab/src ... I am trying to checkout only src subdirectory

mkdir git-src
cd git-src
git init
git config core.sparsecheckout true
echo graphlab/src/ >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git remote add origin https://github.com/graphlab-code/graphlab
git pull origin master

The above code doesnt seem to copy the subdirectory src . kindly assist

Answer 1

You should put only the local path src , not the ' repo/src ' (' graphlab/src ') in the sparse-checkout file.

echo src/*> .git/info/sparse-checkout

That is because git read-tree reads local path from within the repo, defined in the skip-worktree bitmap $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout .

I managed to copy src only with the src/* syntax.

All other attempts left me with:

error: Sparse checkout leaves no entry on working directory