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This post is about Mercurial with which i'm not familiar, but in Git you can checkout a subtree since version 1.7[1]. It's commonly called "sparse checkout".

by tux1968 10y ago

This post is about Mercurial with which i'm not familiar, but in Git you can checkout a subtree since version 1.7[1]. It's commonly called "sparse checkout". [1] http://jasonkarns.com/blog/subdirectory-checkouts-with-git-sparse-checkout/ http://jasonkarns.com/blog/subdirectory-checkouts-with-git-s...

glandium 10y ago
But you still need to clone the whole thing. Sparse clones are theoretically possible, but aren't implemented AFAIK.
- emmelaich 10y ago
  You can do a shallow clone; see the --depth option.
  - glandium 10y ago
    That reduces the history depth, but still gets the whole tree. Arguably, the history is much more interesting than having the entirety of the monorepo for many people.