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copied!<p>What you are trying to do is called a <strong>sparse checkout</strong>, and that feature was added in git 1.7.0 (Feb. 2012). The steps to do a sparse <em>clone</em> are as follows:</p> <pre><code>mkdir <repo> cd <repo> git init git remote add -f origin <url> </code></pre> <p>This creates an empty repository with your remote, and fetches all objects but doesn't check them out. Then do:</p> <pre><code>git config core.sparseCheckout true </code></pre> <p>Now you need to define which files/folders you want to actually check out. This is done by listing them in <code>.git/info/sparse-checkout</code>, eg:</p> <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>echo "some/dir/" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout echo "another/sub/tree" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout </code></pre> <p>Last but not least, update your empty repo with the state from the remote:</p> <pre><code>git pull origin master </code></pre> <p>You will now have files "checked out" for <code>some/dir</code> and <code>another/sub/tree</code> on your file system (with those paths still), and no other paths present.</p> <p>You might want to have a look at the <a href="http://jasonkarns.com/blog/subdirectory-checkouts-with-git-sparse-checkout/" rel="noreferrer">extended tutorial</a> and you should probably read the official <a href="http://schacon.github.com/git/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout" rel="noreferrer">documentation for sparse checkout</a>.</p> <p>As a function:</p> <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>function git_sparse_clone() ( rurl="$1" localdir="$2" && shift 2 mkdir -p "$localdir" cd "$localdir" git init git remote add -f origin "$rurl" git config core.sparseCheckout true # Loops over remaining args for i; do echo "$i" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout done git pull origin master ) </code></pre> <p>Usage:</p> <pre class="lang-bash prettyprint-override"><code>git_sparse_clone "http://github.com/tj/n" "./local/location" "/bin" </code></pre> <hr> <p>Note that this will still download the whole repository from the server – only the checkout is reduced in size. At the moment it is not possible to clone only a single directory. But if you don't need the history of the repository, you can at least save on bandwidth by creating a shallow clone. See <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/28039894/962603">udondan's answer</a> below for information on how to combine shallow <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone" rel="noreferrer">clone</a> and sparse checkout.</p>

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