How to transfer all changes you are making INTO Github 3. How to get those changes FROM GitHub. My way could not be the most efficient one, but it works for me. How to setup up GitHub to your local machine? So for the first part, you need to download Git and set your SSH key. Thanks to the GitHub documentation, step by step guide is here. Git makes this all happen, so you need to download the latest version and install it. On OS X, you'll just install the command line app. To get this empty README file to GitHub, you need to. Download for Windows. By downloading, you agree to the Open Source. The new GitHub Desktop supports syntax highlighting when viewing diffs for a variety of. Create GitHub Directory Download Link. Create GitHub Resource Download Link. Create Download Link Download. Downloaded 0 of 0 files. If you have an account then login to GitHub, after that you can see the green button Clone/Download the zip file. Click this button to download the code. Furthermore, you can download the zip file by appending repo url with '/legacy.zip/master' at the end to download it as a zip file.
I'm putting together some documentation and don't have access to a non-configured machine to test this myself
I'm curious if you need a GitHub account to clone a repository from GitHub to a local machine.
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No. You just use a different URL:
However, the local repo will be 'read-only' in the sense that you won't be able to push your changes back to the original repo. You will still able to modify files and commit changes locally, though.
In contrast,
works only if you have properly set up your environment with the necessary SSH keys and whatnot, but in return you'll get a repository that permits you to commit/push the changes back to the remote repo.
(Sorry for the unintentional ad for GitHub, I just had it in mind.)
I was following some documentation for a product which required cloning from github. I didn't want to bother setting up an account so I needed to do exactly what was asked here.
The command in the documentation was:
but that just fails for me with.
Download Github For Windows 10
I tried
as suggested in one of the answers but that failed too with.
What finally worked was this:
Or just use http prefix , and .git suffix is not mandatory too :
You can check with
Related info:
You could use Github Tokens https://github.com/settings/tokens and use this:
(replace ${GITHUB_TOKEN} with the actual token
I need to download the source code of the project Spring data graph example into my box. It has public read-only access. Is there is an extremely fast way of downloading this code?
I have no idea of working on GitHub/committing code and most tutorials out there on the web seems to assume that 'I would want to setup a project in GitHub' and inundate me with 15-20 step processes. To me, if a source repository is available for the public, it should take less than 10 seconds to have that code in my filesystem.
Tutorials that provide me with 15-20 step processes:
I need something very very very simple. Just pull the source code, and I am more interested in seeing the source code and not learn GitHub.
Are there any fast pointers/tutorials? (I have a GitHub account.)
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When you are on a project page, you can press the 'Download ZIP' button which is located under the 'Clone or Download' drop down:
This allows you to download the most recent version of the code as a zip archive.
If you aren't seeing that button, it is likely because you aren't on the main project page. To get there, click on the left-most tab labeled '<> Code'.
You say:
To me if a source repository is available for public it should take less than 10 seconds to have that code in my filesystem.
And of course, if you want to use Git (which GitHub is all about), then what you do to get the code onto your system is called 'cloning the repository'.
It's a single Git invocation on the command line, and it will give you the code just as seen when you browse the repository on the web (when getting a ZIP archive, you will need to unpack it and so on, it's not always directly browsable). For the repository you mention, you would do:
The git:-type URL is the one from the page you linked to. On my system just now, running the above command took 3.2 seconds. Of course, unlike ZIP, the time to clone a repository will increase when the repository's history grows. There are options for that, but let's keep this simple.
I'm just saying: You sound very frustrated when a large part of the problem is your reluctance to actually use Git.
Updated July 2016
As of July 2016, the Download ZIP button has moved under Clone or download to extreme-right of header under the Code tab:
If you don't see the button:
- Make sure you've selected <> Code tab from right side navigation menu, or
Repo may not have a zip prepared. Add
/archive/master.zipto the end of the repository URL and to generate a zipfile of the master branch.
-to-
to get the master branch source code in a zip file. You can do the same with tags and branch names, by replacing master in the URL above with the name of the branch or tag.
Downloading with Git using Windows CMD from a GitHub project
Copy the HTTPS clone URL shown in picture 1
Open CMD
git clone //paste the URL show in picture 2
Another faster way of downloading a GitHub project would be to use the clone functionality with the --depth argument as:
to perform a shallow clone.
There is a new (sometime pre April 2013) option on the site that says 'Clone in Windows'.
This works very nicely if you already have the Windows GitHub Client as mentioned by @Tommy in his answer on this related question (How to download source in ZIP format from GitHub?).
I agree with the current answers, I just wanna add little more information, Here's a good functionality
if you want to require just zip file but the owner has not prepared a zip file,
To simply download a repository as a zip file: add the extra path /zipball/master/ to the end of the repository URL, This will give you a full ZIP file
For example, here is your repository
Add zipball/master/ in your repository link
Paste the URL into your browser and it will give you a zip file to download
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