Git partial clone lets you fetch only the large file you need

Re:Git partial clone lets you fetch only the large file you ... by nikivi on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:45PM (#22576628)

Is it possible given a git repo (hosted on say GitHub) to only 'clone' (download) certain files from it? Without `.git`

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Re:Git partial clone lets you fetch only the large file you ... by fizixer on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:50PM (#22576659)

I believe you're looking for the 'working tree' only. You could do the following:

git archive --remote=<your-URL> | tar -t

source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3946538

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Re:Git partial clone lets you fetch only the large file you ... by calvinlh on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:34PM (#22576970)

If you only want a subset of the repo's files, you can use Github's Subversion interface: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18194523

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Re:Git partial clone lets you fetch only the large file you ... by bspammer on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:59PM (#22579761)

Short answer is, not easily: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14610427

You can get the most recent tree for a repository (no history, just the current state of the repo) with `git clone --depth=1`. That's often good enough for slow connections.

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