Clone a Folder from a GitHub Repository

Create an access token

Providing an access token allows you to avoid a user/password authentication prompt.

https://username:GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN@github.com/username/repo.git

Command sequence

$ git init
$ git remote add origin https://username:GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN@github.com/username/repo.git
$ git config core.sparseCheckout true
$ echo "path/to/folder/within/repo" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
$ git pull origin master