Git clones the specified file or folder in the remote warehouse

In our daily needs, we may just want to pull the specified files or folders in a certain warehouse to the local demand, here is the operation method

1. Create a folder

Generally speaking, before cloning the remote warehouse, a new folder will be created locally on your computer for storage. You can manually create a folder by yourself, or you can use the command:

// mkdir:创建文件夹 

// 在当前目录下面创建文件夹 test
mkdir test

// 在当前目录下创建目录a，在目录a中创建目录b，以此类推，可以创建一个多层目录
mkdir -p test/b/c/d

2. Go to the created directory

Here is an example of the test file created above

cd /test

3. Initialize the local git warehouse

git init

4. Associate the local warehouse with the remote warehouse you want to clone

git remote add -f origin [email protected]:xxx/xxx.git



// 例如：
git remote add -f origin https://gitee.com/dfdff/test.git
git remote add -f origin [email protected]:yifhsdw/test.git

5. Enable sparse detection

You can specify file cloning only after it is enabled

git config core.sparsecheckout true

6. Write the file or folder to be pulled in the sparse-checkout file 

echo "clone_file" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout

// 例如仓库test下面的testone文件夹
echo "test/testone" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout

7. Finally perform the clone operation

git pull origin master

Notice:

When I was pulling, the following prompt appeared: fatal: Couldn't find remote ref master;

This is the main line, not the master branch. The master branch was not found. The solution:

git branch -a
remotes/origin/main    // 可以看到 主线名称是main

// 重新执行下拉取命令：
git pull origin main