Re: A Proposal to Move to Git
Matt Rice <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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| Message-ID | <CACTLOFoQR=7yVa2xH568qh5bnoP=_JNG8Wu7o9cVLvD9w=3UUg@mail.gmail.com> |
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:37 AM, H.J. Lu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Matt Rice <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:40 AM, H.J. Lu <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I assume git repo has both binutils and gdb. Is that possible to >>> only checkout binutils portion? >>> >> >> you can do this with sparse checkouts, but note that it is something >> you will have to do on the client side, as far as I know there is no >> way to configure this from the server side/on cloning, and your .git >> dir will contain history for both.. >> > > Does sparse checkout work for binuitls/gdb git repo? > Has anyone tried? It did the last time that I tried, and was even useful for doing an uberbaum tree using the gcc git mirror, this may make maintaining the files existing in both repositories easier, but since it required a different conversion of the repositories than the current mirrors, I haven't done so recently.