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To checkout everything from your HEAD (not index) to a specific out directory: git --work-tree=/path/to/outputdir checkout HEAD -- .
just right click on the desired folder and select git-bash Here option it will direct you to that folder and start working hope it will work. Show activity on this post. if you are on windows then you can do a right click from the folder where you want to use git bash and select "GIT BASH HERE".
Cloning only a subdirectory is not possible in Git. The network protocol doesn't support it, the storage format doesn't support it.
Another solution which is a bit cleaner - just specify a different work tree.
To checkout everything from your HEAD (not index) to a specific out directory:
git --work-tree=/path/to/outputdir checkout HEAD -- .
To checkout a subdirectory or file from your HEAD to a specific directory:
git --work-tree=/path/to/outputdir checkout HEAD -- subdirname
As per Do a "git export" (like "svn export")?
You can use git checkout-index for that, this is a low level command, if you want to export everything, you can use -a,
git checkout-index -a -f --prefix=/destination/path/
To quote the man pages:
The final "/" [on the prefix] is important. The exported name is literally just prefixed with the specified string.
If you want to export a certain directory, there are some tricks involved. The command only takes files, not directories. To apply it to directories, use the 'find' command and pipe the output to git.
find dirname -print0 | git checkout-index --prefix=/path-to/dest/ -f -z --stdin
Also from the man pages:
Intuitiveness is not the goal here. Repeatability is.
If you're working under your feature and don't want to checkout back to master, you can run:
cd ./myrepo
git worktree add ../myrepo_master master
git worktree remove ../myrepo_master
It will create ../myrepo_master directory with master branch commits, where you can continue work
For a single file:
git show HEAD:abspath/to/file > file.copy
The above solutions didn't work for me because I needed to check out a specific tagged version of the tree. That's how cvs export is meant to be used, by the way. git checkout-index doesn't take the tag argument, as it checks out files from index. git checkout <tag> would change the index regardless of the work tree, so I would need to reset the original tree. The solution that worked for me was to clone the repository. Shared clone is quite fast and doesn't take much extra space. The .git directory can be removed if desired.
git clone --shared --no-checkout <repository> <destination>
cd <destination>
git checkout <tag>
rm -rf .git
Newer versions of git should support git clone --branch <tag> to check out the specified tag automatically:
git clone --shared --branch <tag> <repository> <destination>
rm -rf <destination>/.git
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