sparse-checkout

I have a large repository in Git. How do I create a job in Jenkins that checks out just one sub-folder from the project? uı6ʎɹnɯ ꞁəıuɐp Jenkins Git Plugin support sparse checkouts since git-plugin 2.1.0 (April, 2014). You will need git >= 1.7.0 for this feature. It is under "Additional Behaviors" -> "Sparse Checkout paths." See: Jira issue JENKINS-21809 You can use sparse checkout feature of Git. Note that Git still clones whole repository to local disk. That's not too bad however, because it is compressed. Create a new job in Jenkins, set Git repository in Source Code Management section.

UPDATE : This will work more intuitively as of Git 1.8.3, see my own answer . Imagine the following use case: I want to get rid of all changes in a specific subdirectory of my Git working tree, leaving all other subdirectories intact. I can do git checkout . , but git checkout . adds directories excluded by sparse checkout There is git reset --hard , but it won't let me do it for a subdirectory: > git reset --hard . fatal: Cannot do hard reset with paths. Again: Why git can't do hard/soft resets by path? I can reverse-patch the current state using git diff subdir | patch -p1 -R , but this is a

If I had 20 directories under trunk/ with lots of files in each and only needed 3 of those directories, would it be possible to do a Subversion checkout with only those 3 directories under trunk? Richard Morgan Subversion 1.5 introduces sparse checkouts which may be something you might find useful. From the documentation : ... sparse directories (or shallow checkouts ) ... allows you to easily check out a working copy—or a portion of a working copy—more shallowly than full recursion, with the freedom to bring in previously ignored files and subdirectories at a later time. pkaeding Indeed,