git-sparse-checkout

Is it possible to do a sparse checkout without checking out the whole repository first?

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I’m working with a repository with a very large number of files that takes hours to checkout. I’m looking into the possibility of whether Git would work well with this kind of repository now that it supports sparse checkouts but every example that I can find does the following: git clone <path> git config core.sparsecheckout … Read more

Retrieve a single file from a repository

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What is the most efficient mechanism (in respect to data transferred and disk space used) to get the contents of a single file from a remote git repository? So far I’ve managed to come up with: git clone –no-checkout –depth 1 [email protected]:foo/bar.git && cd bar && git show HEAD:path/to/file.txt This still seems overkill. What about … Read more