I want to download a file in git repo without clone it.
For example lodash git repo :
https://github.com/lodash/lodash/
in that git there is file lodash.js:
https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/master/lodash.js
I have try using nodegit but still need to clone all files first.
How to download lodash.js file only in git repo using nodejs?
It is easy enough to curl a single file from a git repo
curl -L -O github.com/user/repository/raw/branch/filename
Since you have nodejs, you can use chriso/curlrequest, a node wrapper for curl.
npm install curlrequest
raw.githubusercontent.com/lodash/lodash/master/lodash.js
curl.request({ url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lodash/lodash/master/lodash.js' }, function (err, stdout, meta) {
console.log('%s %s', meta.cmd, meta.args.join(' '));
});
You could use download the zip using the direct URL (https://github.com/lodash/lodash/archive/master.zip) and use adm-zip (https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip) to unzip it locally.
