How to pull specific directory with git

Question

I have a project with git, and I just want to clone or pull a specific directory, like myproject/javascript just like subversion does.
make some changes, commit and push back again.
It's possible?

Answer 1

1. cd into the top of your repo copy
2. git fetch

3. git checkout HEAD path/to/your/dir/or/file

   • Where "path/..." in (3) starts at the directory just below the repo root containing your ".../file"

   • NOTE that instead of "HEAD", the hash code of a specific commit may be used, and then you will get the revision (file) or revisions (dir) specific to that commit.