Git - Clone subdirectory in server root

Question

I've a project structure like this in a git repo:

/Code
    /admin
    /api
/DB
/Docs-Files
/UI-UX

I want to clone /admin and /api onto my server www directory and keep it in sync with git, so that the structure on server becomes:

/www
    /admin
    /api

So is it possible to clone like that? I checked out this answer and was able to clone /Code/admin and /Code/api under www.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '16 at 11:31

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Instead of depending directly on GIT, you could use symlinks. I am assuming that you already have the sparse-checkout done correctly, so could just do:

On *nix

ln -s /Code/admin /www/admin
ln -s /Code/api /www/api

On Windows

(obviously, looking at the paths, I don't think you are using Windows, but for the sake of completeness)

mklink /J /www/admin /Code/admin
mklink /J /www/api /Code/api

(Note that the args in ln and mklink are in the opposite order. In the former the source is the first arg whereas it is the second one in the latter.)

Then you would just do you Git-y work in the original /Code directory.

answered Nov 22 '16 at 11:31

Ashutosh Jindal

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Will the API function with symlinks? I mean will the paremeters be passed without any issue? – Kanav Nov 22 '16 at 11:59
What do you mean by _the API_ ? – Ashutosh Jindal Nov 22 '16 at 11:59
Do i need to `cd` into `www` directory and then run the commands? – Kanav Nov 22 '16 at 12:59
You would need to go into `/www/admin` or `/www/api` directories since they are the links to the directories under version control. – Ashutosh Jindal Nov 22 '16 at 13:02
I meant do i need to `cd` to some directory first(like Code) and then run the two commands you mentioned. Or should i just open up the terminal and run the two commands? – Kanav Nov 22 '16 at 14:57
Open terminal and run the commands. Notice that the commands I have posted have absolute paths so the location where you run from does not matter. – Ashutosh Jindal Nov 22 '16 at 15:02
Thanks. In my case the path was `/var/www/Code/` so I'd to adjust accordingly. – Kanav Nov 23 '16 at 08:39

Git - Clone subdirectory in server root

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On *nix

On Windows