configuring existing git repo for sparse checkout

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Is it possible to configure an existing local clone of a git repository for sparse checkout?

Existing discussion points to performing git init and git remote add -f origin <repo> which results in long download times for my situation.

I already have a repository locally and I just want to configure it for sparse checkout and then switch to a particular branch.

Thanks very much!

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:50:39Z

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You still can use this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4909267/2253302

But you should skip some steps (i.e git init and git remote add -f origin <repo>). I check this steps for my test repo:

Enable sparseCheckout in your repo: git config core.sparseCheckout true
Add path for sparseCheckout echo testSparseCheckout > .git/info/sparse-checkout
Checkout to your desired branch

This scenario works for me well on my small testing git repo.

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Alex M Over a year ago

Yes - that's where I started. If "testSparseCheckout" is a folder, it won't check out all of the child files and folders inside of it. I've tried adding / and /* at the end. I does check out some child items but not all.

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