Gitcurl

Clone a git repository without the need of git to be installed on your system.

Installation

Cargo

cargo install gitcurl

Clone a git repository in the current folder.

gitcurl https://github.com/shadawck/gitcurl
# or 
gitcurl shadawck:gitcurl

Clone a specific branch of a git repository in the current folder.

gitcurl https://github.com/shadawck/gitcurl -b main

Fetch a zip of the repository.

gitcurl -z https://github.com/shadawck/gitcurl

Output to a specific path.

gitcurl -z https://github.com/shadawck/gitcurl -o /my/clone/path/myzip.zip

gitcurl https://github.com/shadawck/gitcurl -o /my/clone/path

Options

$ gitcurl --help
Clone git repository with curl

USAGE:
    gitcurl [OPTIONS] <URL>

ARGS:
    <URL>    Github link or just <user_name_name>:<repo_name>

OPTIONS:
    -b, --branch <branch>    Clone a specific branch of git repositiry
    -h, --help               Print help information
    -o, --output <PATH>      Path to save or decompress the zip archive
    -V, --version            Print version information
    -z, --only-zip           Only fetch the zipfile of the git repository without decompressing
shadawck@shadow:/opt/Projet/gitcurl$