Martin Přecechtěl <precechtel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I have a problem and I would like to ask you for help. I need to
> somehow access the git repository over network and read files from
> it. In the concrete, only thing I need is to read some files from
> repository, where I have files needed for installation of
> computers. So on computer where installation takes place, I need to
> read from this repository some files needed for installation
> process.
Where this repository is? Is it on computer you control? If yes, why
not use some networking filesystem or just rsync checked out files?
> I tried command git clone <my_repository> but this command
> download the whole repository which size is now almost 8GB files + 4GB
> .git folder. This process is very slow. So I want to ask you if there
> is a way how to access my repository (read some files from it) but to
> significantly improve speed. Is there for example something what will
> somehow map the repository to folder and then dowload only thouse
> files which are accessed?
You can try to use shallow clone, which would download only tip of
history... but all the files:
$ git clone --depth=0 <URL>
If remote repository is configured correctly, and all the files are
inside one directory, you can try to use remote archive:
$ git archive --remote=<URL> --prefix=<dir>/ --output=<dir>.tar \
HEAD:<dir>
It wouldprobably not work.
If there is some web interface, like gitweb or GitHub, you can
download snapshots of some subdirectory from there.
HTH
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Jakub Narębski
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