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I need to copy a SINGLE FILE from LOCAL REPOSITORY to my machine, not git-pull or git-fetch, how can i do it?

Is it possible to get it via hash ? such as a3ea2118bf1c5e2c6aa0974d0b6ff7415bd044ef ?

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    If the repository is local, just cp unless it's a bare repo. Commented Oct 24, 2013 at 4:39
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    Fetch and clone work just the same locally and over the network, so answers should be the same as for: stackoverflow.com/questions/2466735/… Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 10:52

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You can use git archive to obtain a single file from a repository:

git archive --remote=file:///path/to/repository.git HEAD:path/to/directory filename | tar -x

The repository specified as --remote can be local, remote, bare or regular, it works in all of the aforementioned cases.

Note that if you want to obtain a version of filename from a specific commit, you can replace HEAD in the oneliner above with the hash of the desired commit.

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