checkout only one file using git
First clone the repo with the following command below, git clone -n git://path/to/the_repo.git --depth 1 The -n option suppresses the default checkout of all files, and the --depth 1 option, which means it only gets the most recent revision of each file Then check out just the file you want like so: Then you can checkout the file that you wanted to get or save to your machine. $> cd the_repo $> git checkout HEAD name_of_file