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How do I clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository?

I'm trying to clone parts of a GitHub project, but I can only get the root folder.

This is the first time im trying to use GitHub, and I just installed tortoisegit. im used to svn and cvs where you could just take a folder you wanted to checkout, but it seems Git (version control) only got a .git file in the root folder, so im not sure what to do.