Seeking git recipe to grab a single file

Mitch Bradley· Dec 6, 2006, 21:22 UTC · lore

I want to grab a single file from a remote git repository into the current directory, which is not a git tree. Is there an easy way to do that? I have tried using git-fetch and git-cat-file, without success.

Thanks, Mitch Bradley

Alex Riesen· Dec 6, 2006, 21:51 UTC · re: Mitch Bradley · lore

Re: Seeking git recipe to grab a single file

On 12/6/06, Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com> wrote:

> I want to grab a single file from a remote git repository into the
> current directory, which is not a git tree.  Is there an easy way to do
> that?  I have tried using git-fetch and git-cat-file, without success.

If the remote repo has a gitweb interface than it's simple: wget 'http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;h=0451f69353bad4d07de34fd4658f40b805bd467a;f=Kbuild'

Otherwise, there is no simple way to do it yet.