git clone / svn checkout

[Bruno De Bondt <bruno@dewereldmorgen.be>]

Hello,

Just started using Git, coming from SVN.

Something I regularly do in SVN, is checking out part of a repository,
instead of the complete repository. Consider the following: I have a
local repository for development. On my testing server, I only (SVN)
check out part of this repository, eg. the document root of a website
(and not all the project management documents, which are in the same SVN
repository, but not needed on the testing server).

How would I do this in Git, ie. only get a specific part of a
repository? I feel that this is very much against the whole idea of Git
(where, as far as I understand Git now, you work with complete clones of
repositories), but is there a way to do this? Or should I just clone
complete repositories on my testing server as well?

Thanks,
Bruno