Perform git sparse-checkout of everything except a list of subdirectories-CodePudding

I have the following (mono)repo structure

└── dir1
    ├── subdir1
    │   ├── subdir1a
    │   ├── subdir1b
    │   └── subdir1c
    └── subdir2
        ├── subdir2a
        ├── subdir2b
        ├── subdir2c

└── dir2
└── dir3

I want to checkout everything except (say) subdir1b and subdir1c.

Is there a way to perform a sparse checkout of everything except perhaps some subdirs?

Asking because perhaps (if there is such a work around) it is easier to state to git what you do not want to be checkout rather than start listing everything that is to be checkout.

CodePudding user response：

Assuming you are using the Git 2.25 git sparse-checkout command, I just tested:

C:\Users\vonc\git>git clone --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/git/git git2
Cloning into 'git2'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 200317, done.
remote: Total 200317 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 200317
Receiving objects: 100% (200317/200317), 74.10 MiB | 26.40 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (127965/127965), done.

C:\Users\vonc\git>cd git2

C:\Users\vonc\git\git2>git sparse-checkout init

C:\Users\vonc\git\git2>git read-tree -mu HEAD
remote: Enumerating objects: 459, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (392/392), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (392/392), done.
remote: Total 459 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 67
Receiving objects: 100% (459/459), 1.88 MiB | 9.14 MiB/s, done.

The result is a repository with no subfolders.

Lets start to add all subfolders, except Documentation\technical

# edit .git\info\sparse-checkout
/*
!/Documentation/technical/
# ... Add your other excluded folders

C:\Users\vonc\git\git2>git sparse-checkout reapply

The end result is the all git/git repository, without Documentation/technical/