Git-archive remote end hung up

Question

I was trying to checkout single file from Github. After following this thread I tried

git archive --format=tar --remote=ssh://[email protected]:user/project.git HEAD:README.md

I get the following error

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Edit: I tried getting file from raw by getting head from git ls-remote url. Then using this head I got the file using wget. But I would like to know how to do it using git commands.

Answer 1

Answer from github docs on Can I archive a repository?

GitHub does not provide archiving.

If you want to consider a workaround, you can emulate archives locally by fully cloning the repository to a local machine. This will make you responsible for your own backups.