Mercurial and Git currently have no support for checking out part of the tree. It's been designed a couple of times for Mercurial, but never implemented. (Git

Mercurial and Git currently have no support for checking out part of the tree. It's been designed a couple of times for Mercurial, but never implemented. (Git people: please correct me if that's changed since I looked last, a cursory Google search indicates this problem is unsolved as yet)