Download single file from git

How to download a single file from GitLab? Ask Question. Asked 2 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed 19k times.

Possible duplicate of How to sparsely checkout only one single file from a git repository? ThomasWeller it's a different issue. Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Gitlab has a rest API for that. Links: You can check how to find repository api id here. Api documentation More on tokens There is also a python library that uses this api. Note that this is GitLab specific solution and won't work for other hostings. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Json 'content' field is base64 of the file, so you have to decode it to access the original file. If you want to use the python library, this will probably be done for you.

Again this would be easier with python library. You can find all of this in the api documentation. This is now possible in GitHub for any file. You need to translate your files for raw. For example, if your file is in your repository at:. Rails Composer is a great example of this.

GitHub Mate makes single file download effortless, just click the icon to download, currently it only work on Chrome. There is a chrome extension called Enhanced Github. There are a variety of ways to handle this, depending on how large the file is, whether or not you need to download folders in addition to files, and if you plan to do this manually or programmatically. There are six options summarized below. To follow up with what thomasfuchs said but instead for GitHub Enterprise users here's what you can use.

Remeber, you have to press Alt and left click simultaneously. Just clicking the "Raw" button will open up the CSV in the browser. Rather than link to download a specific file within the repo, you should use GitHub's Releases feature to associate downloadable data such as compiled binaries with the tagged version of the source code used to generate that data.

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Following the conventions of many Git projects, releases are tied to Git tags. You can use an existing tag, or let releases create the tag when it's published. As it is a public repo you don't need any credentials. Please note the kind of url: raw. This would definitely work. At least in Chrome. Add the --output option followed by the new filename to download the raw file to the newly created file. Google Code does not have Git at all. SourceForge might still do CVS. Vist the above site, enter the repo or directory URL, you can download individual files or whole directory as a zip file.

Now it's possible to download any file or any particular folder within the repository using this google chrome extention:. I think the new url structure is raw. If you happen to use curl and firefox You will get your file even if you had to log-in to see it. In GitHub added a new feature of opening visual studio code right on the web.

You can launch it by just pressing full stop aka period key. So for downloading any specific file you can launch the vscode by pressing. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Download single files from GitHub Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 10 months ago. Active 1 month ago.

Viewed 1. I don't want the URL for displaying the raw file; in case of binaries it's for nothing. If we decide to switch to Google Code, is the mentioned functionality presented here? Or is there any free-of-charge hosting and VCS for open-source projects?

Improve this question. Minhas Kamal Radek Simko Radek Simko For GitLab, see stackoverflow. Try Gitzip for github for chrome — subtleseeker. Here's the simplest command-line answer for sure! Click on the checkbox next to it and select 'download'.. Oh, doesn't exist? How absurd. OH, and also, consider that , times someone came to this page looking for an answer!

Getting a million page views for a feature would be good, bug? No — Traderhut Games. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Go to the file you want to download. Click it to view the contents within the GitHub UI. In the top right, right click the Raw button.

Save as Improve this answer. Instead of "Save as", copy the URL. Thats the URL of the file. You can now download it with any tool that use the URL to download: wget, your browser, etc. MattParkins I just tried it and I think it DOES work now for large files even binary file with the "we can't show files that are this big right now" warning — lmsurprenant. This worked fo a single C file.

Perhaps github should add another button for downloading. Right clicking a button is not very intuitive. Perfect for most source code files as they rarely exceed the size threshold. Just a reminder. Copy the URL of the raw file, i. Show 1 more comment. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Note for posterity: I just tested it and using raw works fine for binary files.

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