How do you use Git to retrieve just one (or a few) files from a repo? [duplicate]

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I switched into the specific directory into which I'd like my repo file to be copied into, and then tried the following:

    git clone git@github.com:path/to/file.java

but it's giving me ERROR: repository not found

Can anyone tell me what's going on, and what's the right thing to do? (a little background doesn't hurt!)

回答1:

You may want to look into something called a sparse checkout which was implemented in Git 1.7 I believe. Before that I don't think git allowed you to do so although on github you can always copy individual files from their web interface by opening the file and saving it.

回答2:

git works at the repository level, not at the file level (unlike CVS/SVN).

As a result, if you clone you usually clone the whole repo - and a change is tracked as a repository content change - not a simple file change.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10004508/how-do-you-use-git-to-retrieve-just-one-or-a-few-files-from-a-repo