Run this on your own machine
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1. Clone just this folder
This clone defers downloading file contents, then narrows the checkout to an exact pattern matching only this folder — so the only files that end up on disk, and the only file contents git actually downloads, are the ones under . Nothing else from the repo touches your working tree. How does that work?
2. Want the rest of the repo too?
Run this from inside the cloned folder to fetch everything else:
These are plain git commands — they work the same in any terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, or PowerShell/Git Bash on Windows) as long as git is installed. Requires git 2.25 or newer for the sparse-checkout command; check with git --version.
Prefer this over the web app for bigger folders, when you want full history, or you're scripting something repeatable. The is faster when you just want to look at or grab one folder without a terminal handy.