git - commit single repository in empty directory without having downloaded repo

Question

Is it possible to not have to download the entire repo before making a commit, ie, to commit just a single local file or local folder by itself (without already having the existing stuff in the repo in the local directory)?

Specifically:

I have in a local directory, only the following to commit (with all files inside the directory):

\\Local\\SingleFolder

The local directory only contains that single folder.

The remote directory, contains lots of stuff :

Folder1
Folder2
file1.cpp
anotherfile.cpp
...
(etc)

I don't want to download all that stuff locally.

Can I commit just my single \\Local\\SingleFolder without having to download lots of stuff ?

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Reason: computer with these files is on low disk space (blame apple tiny Flash drives), and I only need to commit one folder to an existing large repo. I'm trying to avoid having to USB this...

Answer 1

There is no way I see you can do it unless you have the repository locally somewhere (on some other machine also).

What you can do:
1. Create a new folder and make it a git repo ( git init )
2. Add \\Local\\SingleFolder and commit it.
3. Create a patch of that commit ( git format-patch -1 ) 4. Mail the patch to someone who has the repository downloaded(cloned)
5. Ask them to do git am --ignore-whitespace <patch-file> to whichever branch you require
6. Push it!

Et voila!

Hope this helps! :)