Make a sparse checkout exercise

[martinmosegaard]

Usecase: There is a giant repo and a person with a specific role will only ever edit a few files in a couple of subdirectories. How can that person get only those files on his local computer?

See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/600079/how-do-i-clone-a-subdirectory-only-of-a-git-repository/13738951

[RandomSort]

Could be perhaps also be combined or supplemented by a shallow-clone