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Original manual approach: Checking out an individual directory is not supported by git natively, but Github can do this via SVN. If you checkout your code with subversion, Github will essentially convert the repo from git to subversion on the backend, then serve up the requested directory. Here's how you can use this feature to download a specific folder. I'll use the popular javascript library lodash as an example. Navigate to the folder you want to download.
Modify the URL for subversion. You might not see any activity immediately because Github takes up to 30 seconds to convert larger repositories, so be patient. That's all! Github supports more subversion features as well, including support for committing and pushing changes. You may also configure properties of the downloaded file- detailed usage. Disclaimer: I fell into the same problem as the question-asker and could not find any simple solution.
So, I developed this tool for my own use first, then opened it for everyone :. Chrome Extension , Firefox Addon. Step1: Input github url to the field at the top-right. Step2: Press enter or click download for download zip directly or click search for view the list of sub-folders and files. In most cases, it works fine, except that the folder contains more than 1, files, because of the Github Trees API limitation.
Before you run svn export , it's good to first verify the content of the directory with:. If you want to download files, not clone the repository with history, you can do this with git-archive. Some things that make it special:. More information in this blog post and the git documentation. GitHub doesn't allow git-archive access. Nothing wrong with other answers but I just thought I'd share step-by-step instructions for those wandering through this process for the first time.
I would try running svn cleanup followed by svn update. Please search SO for additional options. Whoever is working on specific folder he needs to clone that particular folder itself, to do so please follow below steps by using sparse checkout. You cannot; unlike Subversion, where each subdirectory can be checked out individually, Git operates on a whole-repository basis.
For projects where finer-grained access is necessary, you can use submodules -- each submodule is a separate Git project, and thus can be cloned individually. It is conceivable that a Git front-end e. GitHub's web interface, or gitweb could choose to provide an interface for you to extract a given folder, but to my knowledge none of them do that though they do let you download individual files, so if the folder does not contain too many files, that is an option. There are a variety of ways to handle this, depending on whether or not you want to do this manually or programmatically.
There are four options summarized below. Also, I've posted a similar answer on StackOverflow for those that need to download single files from GitHub as opposed to folders. This archive format contains none of the git-repo magic, just the tracked files themselves and perhaps a few. If you are comfortable with unix commands, you don't need special dependencies or web apps for this.
You can download the repo as a tarball and untar only what you need. This will download the whole tarball. Use the SVN method mentioned in the other answers if this has to be avoided or if you want to be nice to the GitHub servers.
Yes, using export instead of checkout would give a clean copy without extra git repository files. This option was added together with an update to the remote protocol, and it truly prevents objects from being downloaded from the server. I have covered this in more detail at: Git: How do I clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository? This is how I do it with git v2. This trick doesn't work with v2.
Forking a repository comes with a number of benefits. It gives you your own copy on your GitHub account that allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project. For example, you could find a bug in my Tip Calculator or want to add your own features. To get the latest 3. No dependencies are needed, plain simple Bash and curl Get the latest version - Assuming the versioning format is - "v0. So many ways to skin a cat. Retrieving source files: A shell script, incorporating authentication in order to access private repositories and use tag-name based retrieval to fetch a.
Ensure jq is installed on the system running the script:! Ensure jq is installed. I changed script a bit from a year ago.
If someone needs a PowerShell only version example for Microsofts vsts agent : Exactly what I was hoping to find. ToString Perfect! Thank you! As for the proliferation of comments here: The majority of people posting clearly aren't proficient shell coders.
There are a number of gems above, but many of the solutions are overly complex, spawn more processes than necessary, make shell quoting blunders, etc. Some claim to be "bash" but are actually "sh" and vise versa. Many of the examples here using 2 grep s and a cut could be simplified to a single grep if you pay attention to the URL scheme to match. Many examples above make the mistake of using xargs , then only handling one possible output.
These will fail badly if more than one match is found. Half the comments seem to be unaware that the exact syntax will need to be adjusted based on the upstream project's asset naming schemes. There is no 1-size-fits-all command for this because almost all of these rely on some form of pattern matching or assumptions about the naming scheme.
We don't need 20 more "this is the one that works" posts! Sure you had to adjust your syntax for the project you were downloading from, but that doesn't mean it will work best for everyone. Different tools are used and some situations might call for that. I posted examples with jq and with grep above to illustrate how different tooling could be used to advantage. Likewise swapping wget -qi and curl -fsLJO can be a matter of system tooling choice.
Some of these are better for scripting, some are better for interactive use. Now I can simply curl it curl -fsSL github. Get the URL of the latest release.
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