Re: [nongnu] main 385623dca6 2/2: * elpa-packages (notmuch): New package.

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> While I hope Git grows support for "partial clones" (or more likely is
>>>> superseded by something else which does support such things), the
>>>> current situation is that you just can't do that.  Which means
>>>> `elpa-diffs` will be spammed with irrelevant commit to the non-Emacs
>>>> part of Notmuch, for example, and `package-vc` will still have to
>>>> download the 10MB of Notmuch's repository just to get at the relevant
>>>> 0.5MB.
>>> Do you know if this is being worked on?  Does it even fit into Git's
>>> internal model?
>> I don't think so, no.
>> 
>
> Could this help?
>
> https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout

I don't think so: we need a "sparse clone" rather than a "sparse
checkout".


        Stefan