Git - Download exported archive of a repository

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2011

Submitted by Nick on Thu, 15th Dec 2011 - 16:14 and has been commented on once.

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Have you ever needed or wanted to pull a remote Git Repository on Drupal.org down as a zip or tarball? You know, the way Github does? Most project releases have fairly recently built tarballs which is awesome - but Sandboxes do not (so it seems - please correct me if I'm wrong!).

The following snippet lets you "archive" a remote repository, pull it down as a tarball, and extract it in-place:

git archive --format=tar --prefix=PROJECT/ --remote=USERNAME@git.drupal.org:sandbox/USERNAME/123456789.git BRACH | tar -xf -

Some important notes:

The prefix is very important - without it, tar extracts to the current folder.
The number (next to .git) references the sandbox Node ID.

I have tried using the "zip" format, however the unzip bash command doesn't accept stdin as a source. It looks like funzip might hold some promise thought…

1 Comments

The most recent comment was on Fri, 16th Dec 2011 - 21:22

nice. The "snapshot" link in

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Submitted by Joe (not verified) on Fri, 16th Dec 2011 - 21:22

nice. The "snapshot" link in the gitweb browser view also downloads a tarball. Unlike github.com it doesn't look like it retains the .git directory.

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