How to clone a single folder from a git repository?

Question

git

Hello.
There is a git repository. You need to clone some folder from this repository.
In svn it could be done like this
foo.bar/svn/trunk/myDir
how to build a similar link in the git?
Thank you.

Answer 1

no way, you clone the entire repository and then do whatever you want with it. This is the main difference between git and svn. In git you just have a link to another repository and you sync them. But you can't sync. And generally forget about the original.
If you want to move a folder to a separate repository, you can run filter-branch on the directory and select only the commits related to that directory.