Sourcetree - parameters to reduce size of pulls

[Ahmad Sidawi]

Hi,

We have a usecase of a large shared Git repository with many users, but certain users only wanting to pull certain data within the repo. Through the command line we can do things like sparse clones, we've noticed however that in Sourcetree many users have inadvertently pulled the entire repo resulting in over 10GB of data on their drive. I was curious what options the Sourcetree UI had for supporting a use case like this. 

We've also seen a lot of inconsistency with the size of the repository when users perform a pull through Sourcetree, some users end up with 8 to 10 GB, some with 50GB plus. What can cause these disparities?

Thanks