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Melebius UbuntuCoder UbuntuCoder 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. Does your URL really ends with. I am trying to download a project from github and it has a download button giving zip and other options.

So, I'm trying from there. Show 7 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. From the comments I saw you actually speak about GitHub. It won't work like this because: Downloading a project on GitHub causes the GitHub server to first pack your project as zip and than forwarding you to a temporary link where you get your zip.. Improve this answer. After cloning, do git archive -o output. Add a comment.

It does work, if you use the correct URL. Download a. You're advised to add -O as "Binary output can mess up your terminal" — Phil Gibbins. AndrewD AndrewD 3 3 bronze badges. The exact steps I did: Open GitHub repository. Use that copied URL with wget in terminal. Syaifur Rizal Syaifur Rizal 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Improve this answer. Ramnath Ramnath I don't have devtools installed. How I can use this approach to get devtools installed first? Could you kindly give an example of a. Add a comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.

The Overflow Blog. Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Featured on Meta. So, how do you fork a public repository? You can head to www. If the original project owner likes the change — and it works properly — it can be merged into the original codebase as production code. As you can see, downloading files and whole projects from GitHub is actually quite easy.

In just a couple of minutes, you can have an entire project downloaded onto your computer, or even forked to your own GitHub account.