Git Notes

This document contains notes and commands related to Git.

Partial Cloning

Partial cloning is a feature that allows you to clone a repository without downloading all of its history or all of its files. This can be useful for very large repositories.

Sparse Checkout

Sparse checkout allows you to check out only a subset of the files in a repository.

Here is an example of how to use sparse checkout to clone only a specific sub-folder from a repository:

Clone the repository with no checkout and a depth of 1: This downloads the repository information but does not check out any files.

git clone -n --depth=1 --filter=tree:0 <repository_url>

Example:

git clone -n --depth=1 --filter=tree:0 https://github.com/eugenp/tutorials.git

Navigate into the repository directory:
```
cd <repository_folder>
```

Set up sparse checkout to specify the desired sub-folder:

git sparse-checkout set --no-cone <sub_folder_path>

Example:

git sparse-checkout set --no-cone spring-reactive-modules/spring-reactive-oauth

Finally, check out the files:
```
git checkout
```
This will check out only the files in the sub-folder you specified.