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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Christo Crause via fpc-pascal wrote:

> 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

There is a good explanation here:

https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-size-with-sparse-checkout/

Michael.