Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I am new to using Git and now i am trying on my repositories.
I have a repository where I have put many folders in it.
Now in my new project, I want to grab specific folders from that repository.
Can I do that in Git? I have uploaded my repo to BitBucket.
If you really need only certain directories, you should declare them as submodule of your main git repo.
That way, those directories are in their own git repo, and you can clone them independently of the parent repo.
Otherwise, what you want is called sparsed checkout (as opposed to shallow clone, which clone part of the history of the all repo), and, as mentioned in “Partial clone with Git and Mercurial“, wasn’t possible with Git.
Git1.7.0 includes it with
git read-tree(but you still need to clone the full repo).See “Sparse checkout in Git 1.7.0?” for a script.
“clone parts of a github project” mentions other options.