How to partially download Git repo

sparse_checkout.txt

Sparse checkout

From scratch (enable)
1) $ git init
2) $ git remote add -f origin URL
3) $ git config core.sparseCheckout true
4) create a file with exclusion rules: /.git/info/sparse-checkout
5) $ git pull origin master

On already cloned folder
To enable
1) $ git config core.sparseCheckout true
2) create a file with exclusion rules: /.git/info/sparse-checkout
3) $ git read-tree -m -u HEAD

To disable
1) update the file with exclusion rules: /.git/info/sparse-checkout, keep only * (include everything)
2) $ git read-tree -m -u HEAD
3) $ git config core.sparseCheckout false

You might need also to do this to restore full checkout

git config core.sparseCheckout false
git read-tree --empty
git reset --hard
See Also

http://schacon.github.io/git/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout

COmmits per day

git log --date=short --pretty=format:%ad | sort | uniq -c