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Is it possible to clone a single file from a remote repository with Git? For instance, I am looking to copy someone else's .htaccess file into my own project. I do not need their entire repository, just this one file.
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1 accepted. Hi Subhajit, there isn't a direct way to get a single file from a remote Git repository without cloning the whole repository. This is in part, because of the way that Git stores the file history internally.
Partial clone is a performance optimization that “allows Git to function without having a complete copy of the repository. The goal of this work is to allow Git better handle extremely large repositories.” Git 2.22. 0 or later is required.
Rather than clone, perhaps you can simply download the file.
Assuming the repository is public, you can download a single file like this:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jquery/jquery/master/src/ajax.js
To get the url, navigate to the file in GitHub, and choose the "raw" view.
Note that this will only work with public repos.
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