git clone, ignoring a directory

Question

I\'m trying to test something on a wordpress install. In doing so, I\'d like to quickly replicate the repo. However, the upload directory (wp-content/uploads) i

Answer 1

On the server:

 git checkout master^0    # the ^0 checks out the commit itself, not the branch
 git filter-branch --tree-filter 'git rm -r wp-content/uploads' HEAD
 git checkout -b filtered

(filter-branch on a big project here generates new history at about 2-3 commits per second)

Then, anywhere you like,

 git init
 git remote add gimme your://repo/path
 git fetch gimme filtered

edit: fixed syntax errors according to http://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch