Hi Michael,
On top of what Philip already mentioned about shallow clone (in case you
don`t need history), you can also use "sparse checkout"[1]
<https://git-scm.com/docs/git-read-tree#_sparse_checkout> for the case you
don`t need all the files, either. An example:
git clone --no-checkout --depth 1 https://github.com/gnustep/gap.git
cd gap
git config core.sparseCheckout true
echo "user-apps/FlexiSheet/*" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git checkout
Note that you still *do have *all the files inside ".git" folder, just not
checked out... One of the core Git philosophies is that project repository
contains everything, and you get (to work with) everything, being a major
drawback in working with huge repositories - but there`s work in progress
in that regards, which is what Philip also addresses in second part of his
message :)
Regards, Buga
[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-read-tree#_sparse_checkout
On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 12:25:14 AM UTC+1, Michael Gersten wrote:
>
> Is there a way to get a partial repository, such as
> https://github.com/gnustep/gap/tree/master/user-apps/FlexiSheet
>
> without getting every app there?
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