Download a folder from a GitHub repo

8 May 2017

Ever wanted to download part of a repo from GitHub without cloning the whole thing? You can do it with subversion:

svn export https://github.com/[username]/[respository]/trunk/[path/to/folder]

trunk here corresponds to the master branch, but you can replace trunk with branches/[branchname] if you want something on a different branch.

You can also verify the content of the folder you’ll download first with svn ls:

svn ls https://github.com/[username]/[respository]/trunk/[path/to/folder]
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