Note to self: how to sparsely check out a git repository
Today I discussed with Dave Syer about some improvements in Spring Integration, which I had sandboxed in my messy github repository. A sparse checkout would be convenient, but we both didn't know how to do it. I even thought git didn't support it, but boy was I wrong!
The important thing to remember is that this also works with git-clone. Your index will still have everything, just your checkout (working copy generated from the index) will not. This is a big difference with svn sparse directories, and as usual it's an improvement.
