Branches including only some directories

Question

I work in a large and multi-user git repository. To avoid large checkouts I use sparse checkout which works well for me.

  ----------------- master -----------------------------------
  |                    |                    |   
ProjectA          ProjectB              ProjectC 

Now I would like to create different branches, but I can't figure out the way of creating a branch which includes only one directory. Say I want to create a new branch which it will only includes ProjectA, can I do this?

Answer 1

Make branches in normal way (suppose remote name is origin).

Step 1

git checkout master
git checkout -b ProjectA
git push -u origin ProjectA

git checkout master
git checkout -b ProjectB
git push -u origin ProjectB

git checkout master
git checkout -b ProjectC
git push -u origin ProjectC

Step 2

git checkout ProjectA

delete all directory not belong to ProjectA

git add -A .
git commit -m"All source code of ProjectA"
git push -u origin ProjectA

Step 3

git checkout ProjectB

delete all directory not belong to ProjectB

git add -A .
git commit -m"All source code of ProjectB"
git push -u origin ProjectB

Step 4

git checkout ProjectC

delete all directory not belong to ProjectC

git add -A .
git commit -m"All source code of ProjectC"
git push -u origin ProjectC

(But your way isn't best practice.)