I have the url for the git repository:. How can I download just this commit using git I don't want the whole repo, just the one commit patch? I have read the man pages for git-pull and git-cherry-pick and fiddled with the commands with no luck. Cloning the repo really isn't an option because some of the Kernel repositories are exceedingly large and slow to download hours.
This would appear to be impossible. According to a discussion on kernel. If you don't wish to download the snapshot from the git website, you'll have to clone the entire repo. You may wish to read the manuals for git-fetch and git-ls-remote. In the general case, you can do this using the --remote flag to git archive , like so:.
That'll give you the state of the repo at that point in time. Note that you won't get the whole repo, so you can't actually interact with the upstream repo with what you've downloaded. However, using git archive remotely has to be enabled server-side, and it isn't on the Linux kernel's Git server. So for your repo, you could use, say, wget or curl to grab the file using that URL.
Fetch downloads the remote refs but not the whole repo, I don't think so that you can reference them with the other commands.
Then you cherry-pick that one commit, and it attempts to apply the diff to your local tree. I haven't tried it without a git repo locally, but I have tried it on repos that are not forks of eachother. But you have to clone the repo. No way around that, I think. But you can do a shallow clone using the --depth arg.
Also, found a good SO post that covers this topic in greater depth Browse and display files in a git repo without cloning. This seems to be the cheapest way in terms of download size to fetch some commit provided that you have "create reference" access right to remote repository. More information about the structure Inside Git:. Git directory Git inside: Direct work with git objects Creating a Branch Navigating Branches Changes to master branch.
View the different branches Merging Creating a conflict Resolving Conflicts Relocating as an alternative to merging Resetting the style branch Reset of the Master branch Rebase Merging to the Master branch Click on download in the left side. So, for example, the url will end with? Please check this image which illustrates steps. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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Rudy Matela Rudy Matela 6, 2 2 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Can I use the link above in the Android Studio terminal to clone a commit? If so, could you provide the basic terminal code? I wish they would show this on their website so it was obvious. If clone the entire repository it will be very slow because we don't need the entire commit history.
GitHub provides a download as zip service for a specific version which meets our needs. But how about a Git repository accessed via SSH? The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. How do I download a specific git commit from a repository?
Do a "git export" like "svn export"? Excluding files from git archive exports using gitattributes. Git - git-archive Documentation.
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