Question

I keep a lot of stuff in git repositories, out there on the net. The problem is that I often find myself on machines that don’t have git, and where I also don’t have root access. I don’t necessarily need to commit changes back to the repo, just get the current master of the git project.

Is there any way to download a git repo, without having git itself? The ideal solution would be some kind of portable shell script.

Thanks!

Answer 1

It sounds like what you are looking for is something that will let you have a local working directory with your actual git repository remote.

Since that kinda goes against the git philsophy of always having your entire repository history local, I doubt you are going to find anything. Your best bet would probably be to just copy the sources from another git working directory via typical file copy methods (ftp a tarball, or whatever).

EDIT: OOC, does the git client actually require admin access to install for personal use? I understand needing admin to install one of the git servers, but the client should be OK with just user access. Try installing (or compiling from sources) just the client.