Often in Azure DevOps pipeline we only need some specific subfolder instead of whole repository branch. If we will check "Get sources" task we will notice that there is no way to choose subfolder: we may only select project, repository and branch but there is no field for selecting specific folder:
However it is not that hard to achieve our goal. After "Get sources" we need to add "Delete files from" task:
and in this task enumerate all subfolders which are not needed:
As result all subfolders enumerated there will be deleted (in example above these are subfolder1, subfolder2 and subfolder3) from the root folder with copied sources before to continue pipeline execution. This trick will allow to get only specific subfolder from source control for Azure DevOps pipeline.
