Clonning of a single file or folder is possible

[subhajit bhadury]

Is Bitbucket supports single file/ folder clonning? Can it be possible to do forking of a single file/ folder? 

In source stree I can do only repository cloning. Please help me.

[Ana Retamal · Accepted solution]

Hi Subhajit, there isn't a direct way to get a single file from a remote Git repository without cloning the whole repository. This is in part, because of the way that Git stores the file history internally. 

As a workaround, you can navigate to the remote repository in Bitbucket and copy the content of the source file.

Cheers! 

Ana

[subhajit bhadury]

Thanks Ana for your reply.

So my guess is that we can only clone repository and brnaches right? 

Thanks,

Subhajit

[Eric Henry]

That is correct.

You can programmatically get the contents of a file/directory by using the API. You can see the docs for this here.