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? > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.