<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fasterthanlime</span></a></span> I use that to keep only the relevant directory in a submodule, for example the <code>sass</code> directory from bulma:</p><p>git submodule add git@github.com:jgthms/bulma.git vendor/bulma<br>cd vendor/bulma<br>git sparse-checkout init --cone<br>git sparse-checkout set sass</p>