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Git: Checkout a single directory from a git repo

Setup Directory

mkdir myrepo && cd myrepo
git init

Configure Repo

Setup

git remote add origin -f [email protected]:USERHERE/myrepo.git
git sparse-checkout init

# Repo top level dir to match on sparse checkout (can specify multiple, space separated)
git sparse-checkout set scripts

Verify

git sparse-checkout list

Pull

Pull just the matches from a certain branch due to the sparse-checkout list.

git pull origin main