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Reputation: 157

Pull git contents without the meta content

Example: Git Repository abc.git contains tracked files abc-home.txt and abc-artifact.img

When I do git clone I get the files and git creates a .git directory with the meta information. Can I ask git to give me just the files without the meta information?

clarification Edit: I'm pulling from a remote bare repo.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 90

Answers (1)

David Ferenczy Rogožan
David Ferenczy Rogožan

Reputation: 25471

You can use git archive and extract it immediately using tar:

git archive <branch-name> | tar -xC ./extract-here

Or if you're fine with an archive, you can create a zip of your repository:

git archive --format zip --output <repository.zip> <branch-name>

If you don't have a clone of repository locally, just add option --remote=<repository-url> to the git archive command.

Upvotes: 2

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