Git Sparse Checkout¶

If you are only interested in the data for a specific country, you can use Git's sparse-checkout feature to download only the files for that country. This can save a significant amount of disk space and time.

Here is how you can do a sparse checkout for just the data for Norway (NO).

Step-by-step guide¶

Clone the repository without checking out any files:

This special clone command creates the .git directory with all the repository history but doesn't pull the actual files yet.
```
git clone --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/peppoller/peppol_per_country.git
cd peppol_per_country
```
Enable sparse checkout and define the directory you want:

This command tells Git that you only want to have the files in the extracts/NO/ directory.
```
git sparse-checkout set extracts/NO/
```
Pull the files:

Now, Git will pull only the files that match the path you specified.
```
git checkout
```

After these steps, your extracts/ directory will contain only the NO subdirectory.

Adding more directories¶

If you want to add more directories later, you can use the add command:

git sparse-checkout add extracts/SE/
git checkout

Reverting to a full checkout¶

If you want to disable sparse checkout and download all the files in the repository, you can use the disable command:

git sparse-checkout disable
git checkout