How to pull specific directory with git

Question

I have a project with git  and I just want to clone or pull a specific directory  like myproject javascript  just like subversion does    make some changes  commit and push back again   It s possible

User · Answer

For all that struggle with theoretical file paths and examples like I did, here a real world example: Microsoft offers their docs and examples on git hub, unfortunately they do gather all their example files for a large amount of topics in this repository:

https://github.com/microsoftarchive/msdn-code-gallery-community-s-z

I only was interested in the Microsoft Dynamics js files in the path

msdn-code-gallery-community-s-z/Sdk.Soap.js/

so I did the following

create a

msdn-code-gallery-community-s-zSdkSoapjs\.git\info\sparse-checkout

file in my repositories folder on the disk

git sparse-checkout init

in that directory using cmd on windows

The file contents of

msdn-code-gallery-community-s-zSdkSoapjs\.git\info\sparse-checkout

is

Sdk.Soap.js/*

finally do a

git pull origin master

User · Answer

If you want to get the latest changes in a directory without entering it  you can do     git -C  lt Path to directory gt  pull

User · Answer

Sometimes  you just want to have a look at previous copies of files without the rigmarole of going through the diffs   In such a case  it s just as easy to make a clone of a repository and checkout the specific commit that you are interested in and have a look at the subdirectory in that cloned repository  Because everything is local you can just delete this clone when you are done

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After much looking for an answer  not finding  giving up  trying again and so on  I finally found a solution to this in another SO thread   How to git-pull all but one folder  To copy-paste what s there   git init git remote add -f origin  lt url gt  git config core sparsecheckout true echo  lt dir1 gt    gt  gt   git info sparse-checkout echo  lt dir2 gt    gt  gt   git info sparse-checkout echo  lt dir3 gt    gt  gt   git info sparse-checkout git pull origin master   To do what OP wants  work on only one dir   just add that one dir to  git info sparse-checkout  when doing the steps above   Many many thanks to  cforbish

User · Answer

It s not possible  You need pull all repository or nothing

User · Answer

Maybe this command can be helpful    git archive --remote MyRemoteGitRepo --format tar BranchName or commit  path to your dir or file  gt  files tar    Et voil

User · Answer

Tried and tested this works    mkdir  lt directory name gt       Same directory name as the one you want to pull cd  lt directory name gt   git remote add origin  lt GIT URL gt   git checkout -b   lt branch name gt    git config core sparsecheckout true  echo  lt directory name gt    gt  gt   git info sparse-checkout  git pull origin  lt pull branch name gt    Hope this was helpful

User · Answer

In an empty directory   git init git remote add  REMOTE NAME   GIT URL  git fetch REMOTE NAME git checkout REMOTE NAME BRANCH -- path to directory

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cd into the top of your repo copy git fetch git checkout HEAD path to your dir or file   Where  path      in  3  starts at the directory just below the repo root containing your      file  NOTE that instead of  HEAD   the hash code of a specific commit may be used  and then you will get the revision  file  or revisions  dir  specific to that commit

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git clone --filter from git 2 19 now works on GitHub  tested 2020-09-18  git 2 25 1  I m not sure about pull fetch  but at least for the initial clone  this option was added together with an update to the remote protocol  and it truly prevents objects from being downloaded from the server  E g   to clone only objects required for d1 of this repository  https   github com cirosantilli test-git-partial-clone I can do  git clone     --depth 1     --filter blob none     --no-checkout     https   github com cirosantilli test-git-partial-clone     cd test-git-partial-clone git checkout master -- d1  I have covered this in more detail at  Git  How do I clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository  It is very likely that whatever gets implemented for git clone in that area will also have git pull analogues  but I couldn t find it very easily yet

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