How to pull specific directory with git

git directory pull
bluefoot picture bluefoot · Mar 11, 2010 · Viewed 291.7k times · Source

I have a project with git, and I just want to clone or pull a specific directory, like myproject/javascript just like subversion does.
make some changes, commit and push back again.
It's possible?

Answer

vergueishon picture vergueishon · Oct 29, 2010
  1. cd into the top of your repo copy
  2. git fetch

  3. git checkout HEAD path/to/your/dir/or/file

    • Where "path/..." in (3) starts at the directory just below the repo root containing your ".../file"

    • NOTE that instead of "HEAD", the hash code of a specific commit may be used, and then you will get the revision (file) or revisions (dir) specific to that commit.

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