Git pull remote repo

Question

I need to automatically pull down a compressed version of my repo with a python script. What would be the best way to do this?

As far as I know the archive command in git does not support remote repos

Answer 1

Examples

Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the /var/tmp/junk directory :

git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)

... on github :

wget https://github.com/lgs/grokphoto/tarball/master

Answer 2

From man git archive:

--remote=<repo>

Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.