> In Git, you can checkout neither a single folder nor a file. Yes, you can. It's called sparse checkout[1] and not that hard. Also, you can subtree merge[2][3

> In Git, you can checkout neither a single folder nor a file. Yes, you can. It's called sparse checkout[1] and not that hard. Also, you can subtree merge[2][3] directories back and forth preserving all the history and merging back if you wish (cutting a directory out of the repository to a separate one and putting it back). It's pretty easy to do in git>2.0 because there is a builtin subtree command[4] for it. [1]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tr... [2]: https://help.github.com/articles/about-git-subtree-merges https://help.github.com/articles/about-git-subtree-merges [3]: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Subtree-Merging http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Subtree-Merging [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3926683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3926683