Checking out subdirs of a private repository

[abonato]

Hi everybody,

I would like to check out only some subdirs of the repository
https://github.com/cms-edbr/ExoDiBosonResonances

Let's say that I want only EDBRCommon and EDBRElectron .
Reading the instructions in
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout

I did the following:
#1 : checkout a package, just to initialize the git area

-$>git cms-addpkg FWCore/Version

No release tags specified, using default CMSSW_6_2_0_pre8.
You are on branch CMSSW_6_2_X
Checking out FWCore/Version in tag CMSSW_6_2_0_pre8.
Cloning into '/afs/cern.ch/work/b/bonato/test_git2/CMSSW_6_2_0_pre8/src'...
remote: Counting objects: 836, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (227/227), done.
remote: Total 299 (delta 245), reused 123 (delta 69)
Receiving objects: 100% (299/299), 49.73 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (245/245), completed with 222 local objects.
Branch from-CMSSW_6_2_0_pre8 set up to track remote branch CMSSW_6_2_X from official-cmssw.
Switched to a new branch 'from-CMSSW_6_2_0_pre8'
HEAD is now at 57ba31a Test package for the tutorial.
#2 : edit .git/info/sparse-checkout

-$>emacs -nw .git/info/sparse-checkout

I added these two lines

/ExoDiBosonResonances/EDBRCommon
/ExoDiBosonResonances/EDBRElectron
#3 : clone the ExoDiBosonResonances repository from the master

git clone git://github.com/cms-edbr/ExoDiBosonResonances

The final result includes all subdirectories, git completely ignored it.
How can it be achieved ?

Many thanks,
Alessio

[ktf]

Ciao Alessio, I assume by now this is understood? Apparently we never closed this. Closing. Reopen if not ok.