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I'm working with a large TFS collection (around 5GB) and I'm looking for a way to reduce the size of it on my local machine. If I were using TFS as a client I would cloak the directories I don't need. But I' using git and connecting via git-tf.

I found this article on using sparse checkout: http://jasonkarns.com/blog/subdirectory-checkouts-with-git-sparse-checkout/ and I've seen mentions around the web that git-tf handles it fine. However, I'm not clear on how the two are supposed to work together.

For example, git-tf doesn't allow me to setup a bare repo and then configure it with "add remote" so I have to download the entire TFS collection when I setup. So half-way down the article it talks about turning on sparse checkout on an existing repository. But after following the directions there is no change to my working directory. I tried deleting the directories I excluded, but then git sees the unstaged changes.

How am I supposed to setup sparse checkout w/ git-tf?

Mark J Miller
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It's been awhile since this question has been posed, but with git-tf, you now can specify the --bare option with git-tf clone. This will create the contents of the .git subdirectory in the current directory so be sure to specify a .git directory in the clone command.

From there, you should be able to use the same options within git detailed in the articles you linked to in your question.

Russ Frizzell-Carlton
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