Is it possible to do a sparse checkout without checking out the whole repository first?

Question

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 kin

Answer 1

Git clone has an option (--no-checkout or -n) that does what you want.

In your list of commands, just change:

git clone 

To this:

git clone --no-checkout 

You can then use the sparse checkout as stated in the question.