Download a specific folder from a github repo

gitget.py

#!/usr/bin/python
"""
Download a specific folder from a github repo:
    gitget.py https://github.com/divs1210/kilvish/tree/master/examples/bricksnball 
"""
__author__ = 'Divyansh Prakash'

import sys
import subprocess

if __name__ == '__main__':
  if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    github_src = sys.argv[1]

    try:
      head, branch_etc = github_src.split('/tree/')
      folder_url = '/'.join(branch_etc.split('/')[1:])
    except:
      print 'err:\tnot a valid folder url!'
    else:
      print 'fetching...'
      subprocess.call(['svn', 'checkout', '/'.join([head, 'trunk', folder_url])])
  else:
    print 'use:\tgitget.py https://github.com/user/project/tree/branch-name/folder\n'

Can You give more details how to use this script?
Thank You.

Can You give more details how to use this script?
Thank You.

The author used subprocess to call svn which is an another version control system. So you may need to install svn first?
And in this script, it actually uses svn checkout URL[@REV]... [PATH] to download one specify folder on github, the doc is here:http://svn.gnu.org.ua/svnbook/svn.ref.svn.c.checkout.html

Usage: gitget.py https://github.com/<account-name>/<project-name>/tree/master/<path-to-folder>

@divs1210 how to delete .svn subfolder after download?
thanks