[fpc-pascal] How to get fpc and lazarus sources when svn has shut down?

[Christo Crause]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:34 AM LacaK via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

>
> I have related question: in SVN was possible to checkout specific
> sub-directory (for example if I am interested in fcl-db package only I
> checkedout only this sub-directory).
> Is it possible with gitlab? Or I must clone whole
> https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source ?
>

There is a relatively new git feature "sparse-checkout" that could
potentially be used in this case (I haven't tested this).  See e.g.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60729017/13781629
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