How to download git directory in tar format

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Using command "curl -LkSs https://[email protected]:gcce/info.git -o master.tar.gz" I am expecting to download the info.git directory from github in the master.tar.gz. However, when I do "tar -xzvf master.tar.gz" I get error

"gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now"

I have also tried tar -zvf, the error remains there. Appreciate your response.

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githubtar
When you run the curl command, you are literally just piping the raw output into a file with a .tar.gz extension, without actually archiving / compressing it. Open it with VIM or another text editor and I assume you will see plain text. You will need to modify your command to actually do the archive / compression. - Matt Clark

1 Answers

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Doing a curl of a repo URL won't be useful (and not be compressed)

You need to download the tarball of a specific version of that repo.

curl -L https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 | tar zx

Note: no need for git@. You don't need to specify a user for clone/pull/curl operations on a public repo.