I'm trying to use python-git to update a single file (checkout) in the repository from remote.
When doing this with command line one would probably use git checkout <file> but I haven't found a proper way of doing this in python-git?
So far I was only able to do a pull on the entire repo, what I want to limit this to one file only
from git import Repo
repo = Repo('./')
origin = repo.remote()
ret = origin.pull()
I have been able to do what you want with that part of documentation : Using git directly, which tells that some specific actions may not be wrapped. This is the only way I achieve to do what you want from remote:
from git import Repo
repo = Repo('./')
origin = repo.remote()
cli = origin.repo.git
cli.checkout('origin/master', 'path/to/file')
From API, you can use Checkout:
You can indicate the file location as arg and version to checkout in kwargs