<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Eliot Miranda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com" target="_blank">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div> I have build.linux32ARM which is full of generated crap. I have renamed it to build.linux32ARMv6 via git mv build.linux32ARM build.linux32ARMv6. So far so good. Now I want to clone the clean state of build.linux32ARMv6 (or of <a href="https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm/build.linux32ARMv6" target="_blank">https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm/build.linux32ARMv6</a>) to create the clean state of build.linux32ARMv7. But I can't?!?!?</div><div><br></div><div>In Subversion one can extract a subdirectory of the entire repository; great for Travis builds, where one doesn't waste time cloning the entire repository. Does git simply not support this? I see</div><div> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/160608/do-a-git-export-like-svn-export" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/160608/do-a-git-export-like-svn-export</a></div><div>but it doesn't appear to offer a solution beyond cloning the entire repository :-(<br><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small;border-collapse:separate"><div>_,,,^..^,,,_<br></div><div>best, Eliot</div></span></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>BTW, my hack is to maintain a clone of the repository I'm calling oscogvm.clean, as a sibling of my oscogvm clone of OpenSmalltalk/vm, and when I want to access it I'll do a git pull and then copy what I want. Expensive, and error-prone, but functional.<br><br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small;border-collapse:separate"><div>_,,,^..^,,,_<br></div><div>best, Eliot</div></span></div></div></div>
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