Download single files from GitHub -how to download files from github?
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?
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? How to download single file from github?
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: