Downloading a subdirectory from GitHub without history

Ever wanted to get just a subdirectory of a large project from GitHub without history?
Thanks to GitHub supporting Subversion clients,
and thanks to the svn command line client if you have it,
you can,
very easily:

1. Browse to the project and subdirectory you want to clone, for example:
   https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master/docs

2. Replace tree/master with trunk in the URL,
   and run svn export on it, for example:

   svn export https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/trunk/docs

This will create a local directory docs,
with the content of the subdirectory on GitHub,
without version control history.

You can give a different name to the local directory with an extra command line argument, for example:

svn export https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/trunk/docs /tmp/xbmc-docs

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Inspired by this question on #stackoverflow: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/18324458/641955">Download a single folder or directory from a GitHub repo</a>
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