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Without cloning the repository, we need to fetch a raw file from a specific branch of the GIT repository. It is not clear from the docs of git archive how can we fetch a specific file from a specific branch.

How can we do this?

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You can use git archive and using the -- to specify a file from the branch.

The command is:

git archive --remote=<repo> <branch> -- <path/to/file> | tar -xO

This outputs to STDOUT, you can redirect from there...

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Just to add that you can set where the file will live using the --directory flag

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