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The smart way to clone GitHub sub-directories!

Do you want to clone a sub-directory of a GitHub repository without downloading the whole repo? Do you want to save time and bandwidth by cloning only the part of the repo that you need? If yes, then you need  clone-github-subdir , a handy command-line tool that lets you do just that! clone-github-subdir  is a simple and fast way to clone any sub-directory of a GitHub repo to your local machine. It is useful for many scenarios, such as: You want to try out a sample project or a tutorial from a large repo, but you don’t want to clone the entire repo. You want to reuse some code or files from a sub-directory of another repo, but you don’t want to fork or clone the whole repo. You want to contribute to a sub-directory of an open-source repo, but you don’t want to clone the whole repo and deal with unnecessary files. With  clone-github-subdir , you can clone any sub-directory of a GitHub repo with just one command. You can also choose to clone only the current...