title: Working around unneeded subdirs with git-svn in order to save space
body: <p>I've started using git-svn for an SVN-based project, so that I can make local commits.</p>
  
  <p>However, the SVN repository contains a lot of directories that I don't need to work with. When I solely used SVN, I was able to partly check-out stuff with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svn co &lt;repos-url&gt; --depth empty 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then update the needed directories:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svn up &lt;repos-dir&gt;/&lt;subdir&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As far as I've understood, partly checking out a project isn't an option with Git, so I'm looking for alternative way of saving some space. Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: what I am thinking myself is something in the lines of creating a branch thatonly contains the files I need. I'd then want to be able to push the changes to these files without pushing any removal of the files I don't need. But I am not too deply into the way Git works to figure out if this is possible?</p>