I need a repository from Git for a project at work. Now our proxy blocks cloning from git, but on Windows, I still can download the repos as a .zip without git cloning it.
This project however runs on Linux and I need a repos for it, but of course git clone <repos-Link> doesn't work, due to our Proxy. Is there a way to just download the files so I can use them?
I'm looking for another way than downloading on Windows, and transferring the files manually
You can get the archive of a repo with wget
wget https://github.com/username/reponame/tarball/master
Note that this is not the whole git repository, just the files.
You can then extract it with tar -xvf master
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It seems that Git is storing copies of LFS files in .git/lfs. This is taking twice of the space. I know this is a typical way Git handles the files, but I'm still wondering if there is a way to prevent Git from caching copies of them and just download from cloud when trying to revert the files.
If the files are in the lfs folder, it's that git needed them at a moment to populate your working directory.
So, no, there is no way to prevent git to cache them (except maybe by doing a sparse checkout if you really don't need to have the files handled by git-lfs in your working directory).
But you have an easy way to clean this cache directory (git will keep only the currently used files and delete the others unused) with the command:
git lfs prune
I have seen so many articles/questions on how to download specific files from git repo, but none of them seems to match with my case.
What I need
Download spefic files from private git repository either using http's or ssh from linux server
Update - I originally wrote this as a general answer about git, and will preserve that info below. But I see you're talking about github, which does give some additional options.
For example, you could use a command like
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin/master/README.md > README.md
to download just the README.md from the frontend-maven-plugin (which I happen to be looking at just now).
You mention yours is a private repo, so you'd have to deal with authentication; I suggest reading up on curl, as it should be able to provide credentials to the repo.
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
Original answer
There's not really a single git command for downloading an individual file from within a remote git repo. The closest I know you can do is this:
First clone the repo without checking out a work tree
git clone -n <repo-url>
Then check out just the file you want
git checkout master -- path/within/repo/to/file
But don't be fooled: This still downloads the entire repo. (That's just how git works.) So in addition to getting ./path/within/repo/to/file you also got ./.git containing all the rest of the data.
You can do in this hackish way: ö(å_å)ö
If this file is on github.com do this.:
wget https://example.githubproject.com/user/project/master/README
You can try git archive command:
git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)
Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the /var/tmp/junk directory.
Example git archieve command usage:
git archive --format=tar --remote=origin HEAD | tar xf -
git archive --format=tar --remote=origin HEAD <file> | tar xf -
Tip in using, git archive, Examples.
I'm not sure what about your question is, but, have you did git clone <<url of git project>> ??
We have a repo in git where the project is contained in a folder called Project. We'd like to be able to release the code to a production server, by cloning the repo, without including the "Project" folder, but with everything below it. Is this possible? The destination directory name is /var/www, which is unrelated to anything in the project. Unfortunately I can't just do a symbolic link because of the nature of our hosting provider (which we'll change soon).
My answer take the assumption that you have a git repository whose content is the following:
/.gitignore
/Project
/Project/index.php
/ProjectB
/ProjectB/pom.xml
If you don't need history at all in that copy of your repository, there is the git archive command which can do what you want except its output its data in tar or zip format:
git archive [--format=<fmt>] [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>]
[-o <file> | --output=<file>] [--worktree-attributes]
[--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish>
[<path>…]
Like:
git archive --format=zip --remote=git#foobar.git master -- Project | unzip
However, the git clone command does not accept a repository path, and I think it's not really git like to export only a tree view of some branch. You would probably need a submodule making Project an independent git repository, or like the git archive example, get only what you want but without versioning (which can be questionable on a production server).
Instead, you can do that:
Clone your repository to whatever path, say /opt/foobar.
Create a symbolic link of /opt/foobar/Project in /var/www.
Or reference the /opt/foobar/Project in your apache configuration (to avoid the symlink) instead of plain /var/www.
I had a Gitorious install that got old and it is clear now that it is not coming back. I want to recover the repos (mainly the wiki repos) from the repository. I do not want to repeat the long and painful process of setting up Gitorious again, just to get some wiki back out of it...in fact I'd like to clean up the old install soon (remove it). Although, when it was running it was awesome!
I still have the database for gitorious, so I know which .git files I want and where to find them.
I was attempting to setup git-daemon (I'm on a Linux (ubuntu) setup), but I am not having much luck. I was hopeful that maybe I could just copy the 'foo.git' file somewhere and clone it.
Currently my .git files are in user git's home folder. No problem moving them though, but I'm not sure how to go about this.
I have git daemon running, but it 'hangs up unexpectedly' if I try to connect via 'localhost', all the repos also have my 'export-ok' file in them too. I can connect accross my LAN and clone any other git initialized directory via ssh, could that help me?
Can I just copy the foo.git (more like a f13f9ed412591ce72f7b3cb793605e93ce.git) file to maybe a git initialized repo and work with it there? Is there a git tool that I could use to expand the .git file? <-- I'm sure Git would be the tool right?
The .git is a folder and not a file and git repos are lightweight in that it is just files and folders. You can copy your repo to wherever you want.
Since you said localhost, if you want you can even clone the repos with git clone /path/to/repo.git and work on the cloned repo. You do not need the daemon or anything else to be running.
So, my situation is the following: I want to maintain my website using emacs-muse mode. For transferring the website (and version control), I want to use git. So I would create a hook in the remote (bare) repository that automatically copies the HTML subdir to the web directory. How can I do that from a hook? Also note that the whole directory contains a lot of files, so I can't export the whole directory.
Any help welcome.
You can use git archive, as it takes a path command. So, in your post-update hook you can do something like
git archive $SHA HTML | (cd dir/where/html/should/go && tar x)
this first creates a tarball of the subdir, and pipes that tarball to a tar command to untar it in the specified directory
(just a suggestion, as it may not be applicable in your exact configuration)
You might consider adopting this Web-Focused Git Workflow which, instead of copying, does push your repo directly on the web directory.
(From Joe MALLER)
Less complicated: Using Git to maintain your website (Daniel MIESSLER):
Daniel MIESSLER has an updated version of that same process:
Other suggestions are available at this SO question, like this post-update script mentioned in the Git FAQ.