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CarbonChauvinist

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VCS (Git) PKGBUILD - Subfolder as Fragment Possible?

Is it possible to target only a specific folder within a given git repo for use in a vcs pkgbuild? I think it isn't, but wanted to check.

I know based on man PKGBUILD that one can use branches as fragments for the source in a vcs package. And that for git a fragment is either a branch, commit, or tag.

But is a folder within a repo considered a branch (in some kind of way)? I'd think no ordinarily, but when investigating how to split a subfolder out into a new repo using `git-filter-repo` some wording in the instructions made me think it could be?

$ git filter-repo --path FOLDER-NAME1/ --path FOLDER-NAME2/
  # Filter the specified branch in your directory and remove empty commits
  > Rewrite 48dc599c80e20527ed902928085e7861e6b3cbe6 (89/89)
  > Ref 'refs/heads/BRANCH-NAME' was rewritten

Notice we're targeting folders in the example command but the refs is listing branch-name?

Long story short I'd like to try and write myself a personal git-PKGBUILD for the following project, but the owner of the repo has the project as a subfolder in the repo and not as its own dedicated repo.

Any thoughts?

Last edited by CarbonChauvinist (2021-09-16 20:59:31)

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