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Is there a way to fetch a single file from a remote? I am working on a small project and would like to fetch the is there a way to just get the single file or do I need to clone the whole repo into my filesystem and get the file then? |
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The git protocol does not allow to fetch individual objects unless their git-hash is known, which is probably not the case here. Otherwise one can only limit the amount of data cloned, which is probably easiest by making a shallow clone. It's probably better to fall back to that only when there is on cloud-provider, and do an HTTP fetch of the respective file from GitHub/GitLab/… instead. |
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i see thanks |
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The git protocol does not allow to fetch individual objects unless their git-hash is known, which is probably not the case here.
Otherwise one can only limit the amount of data cloned, which is probably easiest by making a shallow clone.
It's probably better to fall back to that only when there is on cloud-provider, and do an HTTP fetch of the respective file from GitHub/GitLab/… instead.