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Marius Ilie
Marius Ilie

Reputation: 220

Git pull contents of a folder from a repository

I have been trying this with no success.

I have a git repository that contains 3 folders. Lets say:

Folder A Folder B Folder C

I want to be able to pull just the contents of folder B to a webserver for example.

I just want to somehow init a git repo on the www folder for example and do some magic and have the files in Folder B pulled to this particular folder.

Doing a sparse-checkout on folder B creates folder B in my www folder. I just need the contents of it.

Is this even posible with Git ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1112

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1328122

You can try a sparse checkout in order to load only the folder B.

git init <repo>
cd <repo>
git remote add -f origin <url>
git config core.sparseCheckout true
echo "Folder/B/" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git pull origin master

See "Is there any way to clone a git repository's sub-directory only?"

Since a sparse checkout does create a folder, you need to checkout it somewhere else, and make sure www is symlinked to that folder.

Upvotes: 2

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