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How to clone only some directories from a git repository? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 6 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed k times. How do I download just a single directory?
Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Then you can pull just those directories git pull origin master. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. This implies all Ubuntu versions have 1. You should check that to be the case and comment on your answer here as to which individual versions will actually work. PowerShell is also not Ubuntu and therefore should not be included, in my opinion. All currently supported versions of Ubuntu do include at least git 1. Still this will clone the whole repository and then do that sparse checkout.
If I was forced to use powershell I would definitely like to see the pipe details, they are not obvious! I am so glad that it worked, but how do I include. I tried echo '. First, do: git clone --depth 1 [repo root] [name of destination directory] Then: cd [name of destination directory] I have two projects. One is the "official" project and the second is a light modification some files added. I created new branch and I put new files to them.
But in during development some files common to both branches is changed. I suppose you want to commit the changes to one branch and then make those changes visible in the other branch. In git you should have no changes on top of HEAD when changing branches. This allows you to review all your uncommited files, one by one and choose if you want to commit them or not. Then you have some options that will come up for each modification: I use the "y" for "yes I want to add this file" and the "n" for "no, I will commit this one later".
The great thing about this is that you can then push your work, and create a new branch after and all the uncommited work will follow you on that new branch. Very useful if you have coded many different things and that you actually want to reorganise your work on github before pushing it.
Then if you want the code you removed bits you didn't commit in a separate commit or another branch, then while still on this branch do:. With step 5 as you already applied the stash and committed the code you did want in step 4, the diff and untracked in the newly applied stash is just the code you removed in step 3 before you committed in step 4.
As such step 6 is a stash of the code you didn't [want to] commit, as you probably don't really want to lose those changes right? So the new stash from step 6 can now be committed to this or any other branch by doing git stash apply on the correct branch and committing. Obviously this presumes you do the steps in one flow, if you stash at any other point in these steps you'll need to note the stash ref for each step above rather than just basic stash and apply the most recent stash.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. This solution is the closest to "Download ZIP" button on github page. One advantage is lack of. The other one - it downloads single ZIP file instead of each file one by one, and this can make huge difference.
The only problem is, that some repositories might not have master branch at all. If this is the case, "master" in URL should be replaced by appropriate branch.
Once the ZIP is there, the final unzipped directory name may still be pretty weird and unexpected. To fix this, name can be extracted by this script , and mv -ed to basename of the URL. Final script. This approach shoud do the work for "just the files", and it is great for quick single-use access to small repositories.
If the source is rather big, and the only possibility to update is to download and rebuild all, then to the best of my knowledge there is no possibility to update.
But what next? To "check for updates" see link , and to update see great wiki-like answer. It sounds like you just want a copy of the source code. If so why not just copy the directory and exclude the. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Git Clone: Just the files, please? Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 1 month ago. Active 10 months ago.
Viewed k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Dan Rosenstark Dan Rosenstark Greg Hewgill I'm trying to do this from a remote repo. Not sure if that makes this question unique, though. Though this is a newer question, but I think this is worth to check out: stackoverflow. Get matched to a bootcamp today. The average bootcamp grad spent less than six months in career transition, from starting a bootcamp to finding their first job.
We do not need the web interface to view the raw version of a file. We can manually write the URL of the file we want to retrieve. We can use this format to retrieve any file from our Git archive, such as a HTML file or a markdown file. We could download a file called app. This method works on both plain text and binary files. This approach only works for files that are public. This is because the web interface provides an access token that you need to view a private file.
We can download a single file from the command line using the wget command. This is because we can write the URL for the file we want to retrieve. Like the last approach, you can only download a single file using wget if that file is public. The -L flag instructs wget to retrieve only the file that we have specified. We could alternatively use cURL to retrieve the file we want to download.
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