Approach to take when we need only a directory from a large repo

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

Hi,

gitlab needs httputil from https://github.com/golang/gddo but as per 
current practice, we will have to package the whole gddo as a single 
package. I think this is unnecessary and just addes extra maintenance 
burden. This also means adding lots of build dependencies if we want to 
build an run tests.

Can we consider packaging (automating) only the required part of a huge 
repo?

Thanks
Praveen