# know wget URL, need git-clone URL

2 messages from 2008-11-27 to 2008-11-27. Participants: jidanni@jidanni.org, Andreas Ericsson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16492

## jidanni@jidanni.org, 2008-11-27 04:10

Subject: know wget URL, need git-clone URL
Message-ID: <87bpw1hkqx.fsf@jidanni.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87bpw1hkqx.fsf%40jidanni.org

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I wish the git beginner documentation would tell one how to translate
e.g., http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/files.git&a=blob_plain&f=install.sh
which is good for wget, to the URL one needs for git-clone to get the
same file.

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## Andreas Ericsson, 2008-11-27 09:00

Subject: Re: know wget URL, need git-clone URL
Message-ID: <492E61A6.5060800@op5.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/492E61A6.5060800%40op5.se
In-Reply-To: <87bpw1hkqx.fsf@jidanni.org>

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jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> I wish the git beginner documentation would tell one how to translate
> e.g., http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/files.git&a=blob_plain&f=install.sh
> which is good for wget, to the URL one needs for git-clone to get the
> same file.

You can't use "git clone" to get a single file. You can only get the
entire repository using "git clone". Usually, the clone-url is written
somewhere on the projects gitweb page, and that is also the case for
this repository.

If you visit http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/files.git;a=summary you'll
find this section on that page:

URL	git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-fso/files.git
	http://git.debian.org/git/pkg-fso/files.git

It's impossible to infer the clone url from the gitweb url, because there's
absolutely no connection between them (that will change if gitweb gains
fetch/clone support), and the paths/urls depends on the servers configuration
which we cannot know.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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