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diff --git a/docs/designs/SPARSE_CHECKOUTS.md b/docs/designs/SPARSE_CHECKOUTS.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fe3a4c0104e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/designs/SPARSE_CHECKOUTS.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Below is a prototype for a script to create Git sparse checkouts of the depot. +The script below works today with relatively recent versions of git. + +Open items: + + - Read-increment-write the checkout ID from a file in .git. + - `NICE_CHECKOUT_ROOT` should be a git configuration value. + - `tvl-get-depends` will be a script that contacts the build farm and asks for + the closure of a given source directory, using [depot-scan]. + +```bash +DEPOT_ROOT="${depot.depotPath}" +XDG_DATA_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}" +CLIENT_ROOT="$XDG_DATA_HOME/tvlc/clients" +NICE_CHECKOUT_ROOT="$HOME/tvlc" +CHECKOUT_ID=1 +CHECKOUT_NAME=myclient # command line variables + +assertAbsolutePath "$CLIENT_ROOT" + +mkdir "$CLIENT_ROOT"/"$CHECKOUT_ID" +ln -s "$CLIENT_ROOT"/"$CHECKOUT_ID" "$NICE_CHECKOUT_ROOT"/"$CHECKOUT_NAME" + +cd "$DEPOT_ROOT" +git worktree add --no-checkout -b "tvlc-$CHECKOUT_ID" "$CLIENT_ROOT/$CHECKOUT_ID/" canon +# BUG: git not creating the /info/ subdir +mkdir "$DEPOT_ROOT"/.git/worktrees/"$CHECKOUT_ID"/info + +cd "$CLIENT_ROOT/$CHECKOUT_ID" +git sparse-checkout init --cone +git sparse-checkout set "$TARGET_DIR" nix/readTree overrides +tvl-get-depends "$TARGET_DIR" | xargs git sparse-checkout add + +cd "$NICE_CHECKOUT_ROOT"/"$CHECKOUT_NAME" +``` + +[depot-scan]: ../users/edef/depot-scan.nix |