[Vm-dev] Re: equivalent of svn export...

[Eliot Miranda]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>     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
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm/build.linux32ARMv6) to create the
> clean state of build.linux32ARMv7. But I can't?!?!?
>
> 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
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/160608/do-a-git-export-like-svn-export
> but it doesn't appear to offer a solution beyond cloning the entire
> repository :-(
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>


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.

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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