A shell script to clone a folder in a repo

shallow-clone.sh

#!/bin/bash

# shallow_clone local_folder example-name
## shallow_clone using-jest-example using-jest
fun shallow_clone () {
  folder=$1
  example=$2

  mkdir $folder
  cd $folder
  git init
  git remote add -f origin [email protected]:gatsbyjs/gatsby.git

  # sparse checkout
  ## We would revert this after or reset to initial value if we're being "safe"
  git config core.sparseCheckout true

  echo "examples/$example" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout

  git pull --depth=1 origin master

  rm -rf .git
}