Cloning just the DIST-PHP folder instead of the whole project

[michael-milette]

With the WET-BOEW project, I am able to clone just its "dist" folder and everything under it using the following command:

 git clone https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew-dist.git dist

Is there a way to clone just the "dist-php" folder for the WET-BOEW-PHP project? I tried the following but it didn't work:

 git clone https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew-php-dist-php.git dist-php

Best regards,

Michael

[LaurentGoderre]

With WET core, the dist is stored in a different repo. That's what that commands do. A dist repo doesn't exist for the php variant.

[michael-milette]

Can a dist repo be created for the PHP variant?

[upsonp]

I don't know if this will help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2425059/how-to-pull-specific-directory-with-git

cd into the top of your repo copy

git fetch
git checkout HEAD path/to/your/dir/or/file

So if you clone the whole repo, then delete the demos-php directory. You should be able to use the above if all you want to do is grab the latest updates to the dist-php/ directory using

git fetch
git checkout HEAD dist-php/

You'd still have to clone the entire repo thought the first time.

[LaurentGoderre]

Huh! I didn't know about that one!

[crochefort]

Hey @upsonp I think you should update this page : https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew-php/wiki/Variant-Setup-for-New-Developers-v4.0
with your new information!

Why because it doesn't make sens to upload to production your demo-php folder and also all the other file in theme-gcwu-fegc ...

When i'm saying all the other file, I think about the 404, the servmessage... the demo folder and the docs folder.
just saying :)

[upsonp]

Thanks @crochefort,

I'm just setting up a new PC so it might take me a git to get to it, but good suggestion.

[LaurentGoderre]

Perhaps there is a way to apply this to submodules as well

[michael-milette]

Thanks @upsonp !