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Subdirectory checkouts with Git sparse-checkout
# New repository
mkdir <repo> && cd <repo>
git init
git remote add –f <name> <url>
git config core.sparsecheckout true
echo some/dir/ >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
echo another/sub/tree >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git pull <remote> <branch>
# Existing repository
git config core.sparsecheckout true
echo some/dir/ >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
echo another/sub/tree >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git read-tree -mu HEAD
# If you later decide to change which directories you would like checked out,
# simply edit the sparse-checkout file and run git read-tree again as above.
# http://schacon.github.io/git/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout
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