What?

So I have a quite big bare repo somewhere and needed to get only one file from there (of course - didn't know the exact filename). Frankly my GIT-fu is not that kinky, so the way I did it could cause a little bit of smile on someones mouth ;)

How?

A slice from my notes:

# on a local FS:
$ git init . # create empty repo on local FS
$ git remote add remote_name path # add a remote

# on a remote, bare repo:
$ git log -n 10 # get last commits id
$ git show --name-only commit_id # get listing of files from the last commits

# on a local FS:
$ git archive --remote=remote_name HEAD:some/dir/somewhere filename | tar xf -

So this way you'll end up with only one file scrapped from the remote repo.

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