Download with Git
Create GitHub Resource Download Link (git-github-direct-zip-directory-folder-file) - MinhasKamal/DownGit.
You can't do it. 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.
But if a project wasn't configured so from the beggining, you're not able to do it.
Solution
To download a folder, we are not going to use Git, we are going to use SVN instead, yes ! Subversion will do the trick for you, just follow the following steps (you need to have svn installed on your machine and svn environment variable needs to be available in the command prompt):
1) If you are a windows user
In your windows command prompt, if an alert says that svn is not defined, you need to declare a environment variable with the following value in the System Environment Variables, go to control panel > system and security > system > Environment variables > new
Now we are going to simply use the svn checkout
command from the command prompt, in this example, we are going to download the following folder from a xamarin repository. This repository has too many things that i don't need, and i cannot download a .zip file from this folder, therefore we are going to use subversion to clone only this folder.
Original url : https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/Todo
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Now, the svn checkout command will expect :
But if you try to checkout with the normal URL, svn will not found any repo there. To fix this, you only need to replace tree/master from the url and replace it with trunk.
Final url : https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/trunk/Todo
Finally, try executing the previous command with the final url :
And everything should be now located in the folder where you executed the command.
Final recommendations
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- If you use
svn export <url>
instead ofsvn checkout <url>
, you'll get a clean copy of the folder without extra git repository files. - Use
svn ls <url>
to list all available tags and branches before downloading if you want.