Download files from github without cloning

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Download Git repo without all the. Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 11 months ago. Active 4 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 13k times. Improve this question. Jim Jim Yes it is possible with a git command: stackoverflow. I don't know what the git internal structure is, but I seriously doubt wget or curl would be useful.

What do you count as "the contents of a git repo"? Star 1. MIT License. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. Latest commit. Git stats 12 commits. Failed to load latest commit information. GitHub, however, still handles downloading files differently than other places. Most public repositories can be downloaded for free, without even a user account. This is because public repositories are considered to be codebases that are open source. That said, unless the owner of the codebase checks a box otherwise, their codebase can be downloaded onto your computer, packed into a.

Alternatively, you can easily clone a file or repository using a few simple commands on GitHub.