{"id":6325,"date":"2020-05-21T12:39:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2020-05-21T12:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:39:56","slug":"github-fork-single-subdirectory-download-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=6325","title":{"rendered":"Github fork &#038; single subdirectory download only"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was trying to use a Material-UI blog template to explore using React ans MUi. I went to their Github page and its massive, and the small part that I wanted to use I couldn&#8217;t access from a Clone Repository. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was messing around inside github and accidentally Forked the repository. What this did is make a complete copy of that Repository in my Github account. Since I don&#8217;t seeem to have a limit on file size that I konw of , that was fine to an extent. It does fill up my repositories though so I&#8217;m likely o have a massive list to scroll through to find something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I got the whole repository forked but I don&#8217;t want to load the whole repository loaded into my PC, especially not my Surface 3 that suffers with speed issues anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for forking, here is codetrain to talk about it, and pull requests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"1.3: Forks and Pull Requests - Git and GitHub for Poets\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_NrSWLQsDL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> I found a simple video on the issue of donloading only a subfolder from a repository here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to Download Files from a Subfolder or Subdirectory of a GitHub Repository Very Easily\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZrCRQ8v4nQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The  TortoiseSVN download page <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tortoisesvn.net\/downloads.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>. It does stick an options for the tool on your RIGHT CLICK mouse :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"726\" data-src=\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6326 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress.jpg 604w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress-50x60.jpg 50w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress-42x50.jpg 42w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress-100x120.jpg 100w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress-83x100.jpg 83w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress-532x640.jpg 532w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 604px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 604\/726;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This may be a bid of bloat if you do not use it too frequently, but for now I&#8217;m trying to use the GitHub repo more to get familiar with it. I can always unistall it if I&#8217;m not using it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a good video showing alternative methods, go to 4 min in (I think I have vid below set for that for downgit github repository then you have to run your own react server (I think) to use it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Download Individual Files and Folders from GitHub\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1HRvE_Oa_aM?start=235&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">End comment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll stick with the tortoiseSVN tool as i found that handy, right mouse click is a good place for it, it did the job for the Marterial-UI blog setup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to use a Material-UI blog template to explore using React ans MUi. I went to their Github page and its massive, and the small part that I wanted to use I couldn&#8217;t access from a Clone Repository. I was messing around inside github and accidentally Forked the repository. What this did is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-github"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-22-10_34_06-Add-New-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Max Drake","author_link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}