Re: A Proposal to Move to Git
"H.J. Lu" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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| Message-ID | <CAMe9rOqDPW9-ckm48zZ3CxDWzbAdjQqJq4+mucYTkjBmKveEHA@mail.gmail.com> |
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Matt Rice <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. We need to provide scripts to enable sparse checkout for binutils and gdb. -- H.J.