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I recall needing/wanting to clone only a specific folder from a repo and the best solution being to use SVN. I'm pretty sure I used that trick a few times and e

by maegul 4y ago

I recall needing/wanting to clone only a specific folder from a repo and the best solution being to use SVN. I'm pretty sure I used that trick a few times and even shared it a couple of times. Don't know if it's possible with git now, but that was how I discovered this feature and it seemed eminently useful to me at the time!

Jenk 4y ago
That's called a "sparse checkout" in git-land. https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout
- thayne 4y ago
  A sparse checkout isn't quite the same thing. It still has to clone the whole repository, it just only puts part of it in the working tree. With svn, you don't have to pull down anything for other directories. More recently, you can combine a sparse checkout with partial clone to get more similar functionality, but it isn't exactly simple.
  - vmiklos 4y ago
    FWIW, it's called a shallow clone: https://git-scm.com/docs/shallow https://git-scm.com/docs/shallow
    - thayne 4y ago
      That is yet a different concept, where it doesn't include the full history, but without a partial clone it still pulls the entire tree for the head commit.