Download specific files from github in command line, not clone the entire repo

Question

How do I download just 2 files from github using command line ?
Something in the lines of :

git fetch git://github.com/username/Project.git/file1
git fetch          


        

Answer 1

You can try github-files-fetcher, it is a command line tool which downloads a single folder or file from a GitHub repo.

Given the example above, you can use the following command to fetch the two specific files from github:

fetcher --url="git://github.com/username/Project.git/file1" 
fetcher --url="git://github.com/username/Project.git/file2" 

Think a more real scenario: you were visiting the following webpage page and wanna download the async subdirectory alone.

https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/tree/master/examples

sorry for not being allowed to post images.

With The github-files-fetcher, you should first copy the url of that page, which is https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/tree/master/examples/async, and then run the command below in command line:

fetcher --url=https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/tree/master/examples/async