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

Yes, Possible to download a folder instead of downloading the whole repository. Even any/last commit

Nice way to do this

D:\Lab>git svn clone https://github.com/Qamar4P/LolAdapter.git/trunk/lol-adapter -r HEAD

1. -r HEAD will only download last revision, ignore all history.

2. Note trunk and /specific-folder

Copy and change URL before and after /trunk/. I hope this will help someone. Enjoy :)

Updated on 26 Sep 2019