git checkout only certain file types for entire project

Question

Is there a way to perform a git checkout for only certain file types (.xlf), which recurses down through the entire repository? The results should contain the struture of th

Answer 1

No; git operates at a whole-repository (and whole-history) level; there's no way of getting a partial checkout of a repository. You can of course check out the repository and then delete everything that doesn't match your file, but of course you gain virtually nothing by doing so.