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I have a large-ish project using Git. I do, for instance, most development on Mac, including, so my Mac's local repo contains everything on the project. Let's say it looks something like this:

project/
  src/
  mobile/

I don't, however, do any mobile on, say, Linux. So all I want there is:

project/
  src/

I don't want to pull down the whole mobile directory when it's never needed there.

Now I know I've done this before, but I'm not having difficulty figuring out how, and I see references to both sparse and partial clones. I imagine as with most things Git this is relatively straightforward in the end, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

I have a large-ish project using Git. I do, for instance, most development on Mac, including, so my Mac's local repo contains everything on the project. Let's say it looks something like this:

project/
  src/
  mobile/

I don't, however, do any mobile on, say, Linux. So all I want there is:

project/
  src/

I don't want to pull down the whole mobile directory when it's never needed there.

Now I know I've done this before, but I'm not having difficulty figuring out how, and I see references to both sparse and partial clones. I imagine as with most things Git this is relatively straightforward in the end, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

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1. Clone the repository without checking anything out:

git clone --filter=blob:none --no-checkout <url-of-your-repo> project
cd project

2. Enable Sparse checkout (--cone mode is a simple pattern style which I recommend to you):

git sparse-checkout init --cone

3. Now set the directories you want (src/ in your case):

git sparse-checkout set src/

This tells Git only to check out src/ and not /mobile too.