Download single files from GitHub
Asked 07 September, 2021
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I guess most of you, developers, use any VCS, and I hope some of you use Git. Do you have any tip or trick how to get a download URL for a single file in a repository?

I don't want the URL for displaying the raw file; in case of binaries it's for nothing.

http://support.github.com/discussions/feature-requests/41-download-single-file

Is it even possible to use GitHub as a "download server"?

If we decide to switch to Google Code, is the mentioned functionality presented here?

Or is there any free-of-charge hosting and VCS for open-source projects?

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