Is there a way to browse and display files in a git repo without cloning it first? I can do those in svn using the commands:
svn ls /path/to/repo svn cat /path/to/repo/file-in-repo
I can supposedly use git show but doing:
git show /path/to/repo git show HEAD:/path/to/repo
result to
fatal: Not a git repository
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Not the exact, but a way around.
Use GitHub Developer API
Opening this will get you the recent commits.
https://api.github.com/repos/learningequality/ka-lite/commits
You can get the specific commit details by attaching the commit hash in the end of above url.
All the files ( You need sha for the main tree)
I hope this may help.
Git is distributed version control system, while Subversion is centralized (client-server) version control system. They work differently; get used to that. Please read my answer explaining the consequences of that difference to git equivalent of svn status -u question at StackOverflow.
Repeating myself a bit: in centralized version control system (like CVS or Subversion) almost all commands are processed on server, and involve network. Very few commands are performed locally. Note that to have good performance of "svn status" and "svn diff" Subversion stores 'pristine copy' of checked-out version on client, to not have to involve network transfer for those common operations (this means that Subversion checkout = 2 x size of working directory at least).
In distributed version control system (like Git, Mercurial or Bazaar), where you have local copy (clone) of a whole repository, almost all commands are performed on client. Very few commands require network connection to other repository (to server).
The number of command you can perform on server is limited.
This is probably considered dirty by some, but a very practical solution in case of github repositories is just to make a script, e.g. "git-ls":
#!/bin/sh
remote_url=${1:? "$0 requires URL as argument"}
curl -s $remote_url | grep js-directory-link | sed "s/.* title=\"\(.*\)\".*/\1/"
Make it executable and reachable of course: chmod a+x git-ls; sudo cp git-ls /usr/local/bin. Now, you just run it as you wish:
git-ls https://github.com/mrquincle/aim-bzr
git-ls https://github.com/mrquincle/aim-bzr/tree/master/aim_modules
Also know that there is a git instaweb utility for your local files. To have the ability to show files and have a server like that does in my opinion not destroy any of the inherent decentralized characteristics of git.
if you know the remote branch you want to check, you can find out the latest via:
git ls-tree -r <remote_branch> --name-only
Take a look at http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Internals-Transfer-Protocols for info on how to do this over some transport protocols. Note this won't work for standard git over SSH.
For git over SSH, an up-to-date server-side git should allow you to git-archive directly from the remote, which you could then e.g. pipe to "tar t" to get a list of all files in a given commit.
GitHub is svn compatible so you can use svn ls
svn ls https://github.com/user/repository.git/branches/master/
BitBucket supports git archive so you can download tar archive and list archived files. It is not very efficient but works:
git archive [email protected]:repository HEAD directory | tar -t
While you have to checkout a repository, you can skip checking out any files with --no-checkout and --depth 1:
$ time git clone --no-checkout --depth 1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux .
Cloning into '.'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 75646, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (75646/75646), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (71197/71197), done.
remote: Total 75646 (delta 6176), reused 22237 (delta 3672), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (75646/75646), 201.46 MiB | 7.27 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6176/6176), done.
real 0m46.117s
user 0m13.412s
sys 0m19.641s
And while there is only a .git directory:
$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 96 Dec 26 23:57 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 71 root staff 2272 Dec 27 00:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x 12 root staff 384 Dec 26 23:58 .git
you can get a directory listing via:
$ git ls-tree --full-name --name-only -r HEAD | head
.clang-format
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore
.mailmap
COPYING
CREDITS
Documentation/.gitignore
Documentation/ABI/README
or get the number of files via:
$ git ls-tree -r HEAD | wc -l
71259
or get the total file size via:
$ git ls-tree -l -r HEAD | awk '/^[^-]/ {s+=$4} END {print s}'
1006679487
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