Ah, that's exactly what I was looking for - where is that documented? Couldn't find it under http://develop.github.com/
(now if only the raw format for a directory would include things like the blob shas, commit shas and commit date... ;) On Oct 16, 12:44 am, cldwalker <[email protected]> wrote: > I dunno if I'm misunderstanding your question but can't you just > `wgethttp://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/raw/master/lib/activ... > ? Simply change blob to raw in a url to get its content. > > On Oct 16, 12:17 am, Jxtps <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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/acti... > > > ? > > > 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/acti...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... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
