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Clone a folder from a GitHub repo

Create an access token

Providing an access token allows you to avoid a user/password authentication prompt.

https://username:GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN@github.com/username/repo.git

Command sequence

git init
git remote add origin https://username:GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN@github.com/username/repo.git
git config core.sparseCheckout true
echo "path/to/folder/within/repo" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git pull origin master
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