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Git Sparse checkout during Azure pipelines taking ~15 minutes

We have a single repo of our source code which if downloaded is around 2.8GB. We have 4 self hosted agents and over 100 build pipelines. With that, it is not feasible to download the entire source coded for each build/agent. The approach I gone with…
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Sparse checkout but exclude or ignore files in root?

The docs for git sparse-checkout state, By default, when running git sparse-checkout init, the root directory is added as a parent pattern. At this point, the sparse-checkout file contains the following patterns: /* !/*/ However, I do not want to…
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Jenkins git checkout - place .git folder in another place

We make a deploy to client's folder at client's server using Jenkins via VPN of several git repos. I've set the "Check out to a sub-directory option" and "Sparse checkout". We need to deploy only some files of one common repository (other files are…
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git sparse checkout - can't abort merge

Using git 2.25.1 Used git sparse-checkout init/set to setup sparsecheckout. Now I'm in situation that i need to abort merge. Tried: git merge --abort Entry 'QStreams_xxx/infra/QPrism/Qpvc/gradle_pvc/gradle_pvc.iml' not uptodate. Cannot update…
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Git sparse checkout error "Entry 'path/to/file' not update. Cannot update sparse checkout"

I've just done a sparse checkout following the steps below git clone http://location/repo.git # create .git/info/sparse-checkout file git config --bool core.sparsecheckout true git read-tree -mu HEAD Unfortunately the final step fails with the…
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Asking git to ignore a folder that other people check code into

I'm working on a huge, sprawling, corporate git repo that lots of other people check code into. There are huge folders in it that are of no interest to me at all. I don't read or write code there, and I don't need that code to work on my code. These…
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Git checkout single directory through Chef

Is there a way of doing an sparse checkout with Chef and its git resource? Or what is the best way to accomplish the equivalent of that? As doing a sparse checkout requires modifying a file in the .git folder before doing the pull, I don't find a…
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Checkout a Specific Folder within a Git Repository

I have multiple projects in different repositories: tools thirdparty shared ├──Common ├──Exceptions multimedia ├──VolumeControl ├──VideoRenderer android ├──Audio For example, android depends on shared/Common, shared/Exceptions, tools,…
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Jenkins Git Sparsecheckout multiple repositories

I'm trying to setup a shared library within Jenkins that would have multiple git repositories and then multiple directory paths? Is this even possible? I've looked around a bit and the example's I have seen were here SparseCheckout in Jenkinsfile…
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Ignore files from pulling and pushing in git?

So I have a repo random-words in there there's randomwords.py, test.bat, some other files, and then 5 large dictionaries .dic, each 20mb large. Whenever I clone, push or pull into the repo random-words I want to ignore these .dic files. I already…
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git sparse-checkout existing repo serially

Here is what I am doing First sparse-check-out git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https: cd ./ git sparse-checkout init --cone git sparse-checkout set I need to run something from…
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Why can't I disable the sparse-checkout of Git?

I cloned a repository and found that it has the "SPARSE" after "master". I am not so familiar with git, so I search it in the official document, which says that I can disable it by "git sparse-checkout disable". However, I tried it and it seems that…
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How to use git sparse-checkout in 2.25 and not checkout everything

So after trying multiple tutorials, questions/answers I am still not able to get git sparse-checkout working on Windows 10 with git 2.25 Background Our repo moved from perforce to git recently and now I am trying to get git working on Windows with…
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Sparse-checkout in git v28.0.0?

In git 26.0.2 I was able to perform these steps: git worktree add --no-checkout ../test_git26 git26 cd ../test_git26 git sparse-checkout init --con git sparse-checkout set Q/ ls This ended nicely with one directory in worktree : Exactly same steps…
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