I am trying to sparse-checkout a subdirectory from my git repository. The repository contains multiple plugins for wordpress and I want to check them out one by one. With the below posted solution...

Let's say I did a sparse checkout of a partial clone to not get everything from a big Git repo: git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://example.com/url/of/my/repo.git cd repo git sparse-check...

I'm working with a repository with a very large number of files that takes hours to checkout. I'm looking into the possibility of whether Git would work well with this kind of repository now that i...

As explained at How do I clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository? the best way I've found so far to download all files in a Git subdirectory only is: git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --...

I'm getting the below error when i try to clone a folder "banana" from git repository using sparse filter; git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/gitexpert/tes...

I've been looking for a way to clone only a sub directory of one of my project. Obviously I found this answer. it is well designed and the step-by-step solution explain well how to implement this. ...

What is the most efficient mechanism (in respect to data transferred and disk space used) to get the contents of a single file from a remote git repository? So far I've managed to come up with: g...

How do I clone, fetch or sparse checkout a single file or directory or a list of files or directories from a git repository avoiding downloading the entire history or at least keeping history downl...

So after trying multiple tutorials, questions/answers I am still not able to get git sparse-checkout working on Windows 10 with git 2.25 Background Our repo moved from perforce to git recently and ...

Let's say I have a git submodule and I want to to enable sparse-checkout on it. Is it possible to do so and add that file to the repository for other people that clone? The git submodule gets added...

There are a lot of articles and SO questions about sparse-checkout. Unfortunately I did not find concrete examples. I would like to get this following example work: Create a submodule cd ~ mkdir ...

I have a git repository with a bunch of large csv in them, which I don't want to clone, so I came across git sparse-checkout and this post: https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-t...

I've just done a sparse checkout following the steps below git clone http://location/repo.git # create .git/info/sparse-checkout file git config --bool core.sparsecheckout true git read-tree -mu H...