Git Archive

After a little more research I stumbled across git archive. From the man page: 'Create an archive of files from a named tree'.. Perfect!

This allows me to do exactly what if I do something like this:

git archive --remote=git@bitbucket.org:<USERNAME>/<REPONAME>.git HEAD <FILENAME> | tar -xf - --to-stdout <FILENAME>

You notice the Git output is piped through tar this is because the Git archive outputs a tar archive. I assume this works with GitHub but I haven't tested it.