What is the recommended method for fetching the source contents of a
file given a URL like:

http://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/blob/master/lib/active_scaffold/locale/en.rb

?

>From what I can read in the API, I have to:

1. Fetch the list of commits for that user/repo/branch/path to get the
tree_sha
2. Iteratively call tree/show to get the blob_sha (since the tree_sha
returned is likely to be for the root - is this guaranteed? - and the
file I want may be in a subdirectory)
3. Call blob/show/blob_sha

I'd like to avoid the iterative calls, and ideally also avoid fetching
the (potentially long) list of commits.

- Would it be possible to add e.g.
http://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/blob/master/lib/active_scaffold/locale/en.rb?format=xml|json|yml|whatever
(which would do sensible things for directories as well)

OR

- Would it be possible to add a "fetch/:user/:repo/:branch/:path" API
call, that would return the latest version of the file, or the listing
in the case of a directory?


As it stands right now I'll have to "git clone" the whole thing just
to get a couple of files out - not ideal from a bandwidth
perspective...

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