git checkout specific folder from a repository

git command to checkout specific folder from git repo.
This sample command is for checkout a folder "restapi-jsonformat" from repo to lampp htdocs folder.

cd /opt/lampp/htdocs

git init

git remote add -f origin https://github.com/phpprjin/networking.git

git config core.sparseCheckout true

echo "restapi-jsonformat" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout

git pull origin master