Download single files from GitHub -how to download files from github?

Question

I guess most of you, developers, use any VCS, and I hope some of you use Git. Do you have any tip or trick how to get a download URL for a single file in a repository?

I don't want the URL for displaying the raw file; in case of binaries it's for nothing.

http://support.github.com/discussions/feature-requests/41-download-single-file

Is it even possible to use GitHub as a "download server"?

If we decide to switch to Google Code, is the mentioned functionality presented here?

Or is there any free-of-charge hosting and VCS for open-source projects?

Answer 1

Git doesn't support downloading parts of the repository. You have to download all of it. But you should be able to do this with GitHub. In GitHub when you view a file it has a link to the "raw" version of the file. Now all you have to do is copy the URL in your browser. Which can be done in two ways:

$ wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition https://copied-URL/

$ curl -LJO https://copied-URL/

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