Download code from GitHub using octokit.net

Question

I want to download code from public and private repository from GitHub. For this purpose I choosed octokit.net, but i have big problem to understand how I should use this lib to achieve my goal. Generally it should be done via new GitHubClient class. But when I'm trying to download code octokit.net I'm getting error that path is wrong.

var github = new GitHubClient(new ProductHeaderValue("OctokitTests"), new Uri("https://github.com/octokit/octokit.net.git);
var repository = await github.Repository.Get("onwer", "user");

Octokit is suited to fetching data from the GitHub API. If you want to download the repository code it might be easier to just clone the repository down... — Brendan Forster, Jul 26 '14 at 19:45
Here is how to download a public or private GitHub repository code using the .NET built-in `HttpClient` class http://stackoverflow.com/a/31790435/287740 — Dinesh Bolkensteyn, Aug 04 '15 at 05:07

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '14 at 17:01

The baseAddress overload on GitHubClient is for when you need to connect to a GitHub Enterprise environment. If you're just connecting to github.com, you don't need to specify it.

var client = new GitHubClient(new ProductHeaderValue("OctokitTests"));
var repository = await github.Repository.Get("octokit", "octokit.net");

Download code from GitHub using octokit.net

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