https://writingdeveloper.com/tags/til/ Recent content in TIL on Writing Developer Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0200 https://writingdeveloper.com/posts/git-clone-supports-sparse-option/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0200 https://writingdeveloper.com/posts/git-clone-supports-sparse-option/ til <p>I was deploying one of my projects on my home server and I only needed the <code>docker-compose.yml</code> located at the top-level of the repo, not the full code. My first solution was to copy-paste it, but then I updated the file and forgot to sync it, and it bothered me.</p> <p>Surprisingly, I found out that <code>git clone</code> supports a <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#Documentation/git-clone.txt---sparse">sparse option</a> that by default only checks out the top-level files! To also limit what&rsquo;s downloaded, you can partial clone the repo with the option <code>--filter=blob:none</code>.</p>