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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