Possibility to pull a single folder

[joelostblom]

Proposed change

We use nbgitpuller to distribute assignments. We don't want students to get all assignments at once but release them week by week. It would be great if nbgitpuller links could be folder specific so that we can give students a link that will always pull down the latest version of only that assignment.

Alternative options

Manually uploading only the latest assignments to a separate github repoi, which is what we currently are doing

Who would use this feature?

Anyone interested in disseminating a partial repo

(Optional): Suggest a solution

Maybe this git technique could be used? https://stackoverflow.com/a/43902478/2166823

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[yuvipanda]

Heya!

Unfortunately partial checkouts are a bit tricky with git, and since nbgitpuller just sits on top of git, I don't think we'll really be able to fully support it.

I think the way to do 'one week at a time' is to have a private repo with all your assignments, do your collaboration there. And then move assignments to the public repo one week at a time, when they're ready to go. This way, users can just re-click the same link to get newest assignment. This is the method we had been using at UC Berkeley for a while.

It might be useful to probably add this to the documentation here.