Clone a Specific Subfolder from a GitHub Project

Post by **jussij** » Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:18 am

Step 1: Clone the git repo to the <repo folder>

git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse <repo>

Step 2: Go to the folder created by the clone and checkout the <subfolder>

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cd <repo folder>
git sparse-checkout set <subfolder>

NOTE: You only have to provide the last name of that sub-folder.

For example consider this repo:

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https://github.com/dotnet/samples

It contains this subfolder:

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https://github.com/dotnet/samples/tree/main/core/interop/cpp-cli

To checkout that sub-folder perform these two steps.
Step 1

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git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/dotnet/samples

Step 2

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cd samples
git sparse-checkout set cpp-cli

NOTE: Notice how only the last name in that subfolder is required which in this case was: cpp-cli

This will check out that subfolder:

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Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 7410-AB8C

 Directory of D:\Projects\samples\core\interop\cpp-cli

22/09/2022  09:41 AM    <DIR>          .
22/09/2022  09:41 AM    <DIR>          ..
22/09/2022  09:41 AM             3,853 CPP-CLI.sln
22/09/2022  09:41 AM               205 Directory.Build.props
22/09/2022  09:41 AM    <DIR>          ManagedApp
22/09/2022  09:41 AM    <DIR>          ManagedLibrary
22/09/2022  09:41 AM    <DIR>          MixedLibrary
22/09/2022  09:41 AM    <DIR>          NativeApp
22/09/2022  09:41 AM             2,684 README.md
22/09/2022  09:41 AM                34 snippets.5000.json
               4 File(s)          6,776 bytes

Cheers Jussi