Subdirectory Checkouts with git sparse-checkout

[zamaterian]

Would it be possible to enable git sparse checkout

the problem :
The vim syntax plugin for DockerFile is included in their main repository.
It would be very nice to only checkout/clone the relevant subdirectory.

ex:
https://github.com/docker/docker/tree/master/contrib/syntax/vim

This would require an additional syntax for the vim-plug format.

/Cheers

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[junegunn]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion but the topic was discussed in the past (#122), and we decided not to support it as there are few plugins where it really matters and it's much more complicated than I'd like it to be. I mean it's just not worth it to make the code complex just for one or two plugins. For Dockerfile support, there are alternative implementations you might want to check out; see https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=docker+vim