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Re: Fetching a single file from remote repo

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DKDmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 13, 2007, 22:38 UTC
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On 8/13/07, Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to fetch a single file from remote repo without
> creating a client repo?
> I want to do something like
>  git show --repo git://repo.or.cz/bla.git master:/somedir/file.txt

I think I have found it: git archive --remote=http://62.24.64.27/r/msysgit.git master:share/GitMe setup-msysgit.sh | tar -x

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- Dmitry
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