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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: Re: Large git repositories
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:01:00 +0100
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Finally, I also tried a git "sparse checkout" to only obtain the data/fonts/
subdirectory. It does not seem to do what I need, as it still claims it will
download 1.5 GB. My guess is that it filters the files after the download.

Andreas