Download a specific branch of a github project

Question

To cut the story short, to run a convolutional neural network model, I need an special version of nolearn, which has a url of the form https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn/tree/1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4/nolearn . However, there are no Download as Zip buttons at the page, nor I can download it with

git clone https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn -branch 1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4/nolearn

Simply,

git clone https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn/tree/1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4/nolearn

does not work, too.

Even, I have no idea what should I search for in Google!

Note: This is the last version which provided support for the class Objective, i.e. the command from lasagne.objectives import Objective is no more supported!

score 45 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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This can help you:

How to clone a single branch in git?

Where specifies:

git clone <url> --branch <branch> --single-branch [<folder>]

Docu :

Git Clone

--[no-]single-branch

Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, either specified by the --branch option or the primary branch remote’s HEAD points at. When creating a shallow clone with the --depth option, this is the default, unless --no-single-branch is given to fetch the histories near the tips of all branches. Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any branch when --single-branch clone was made, no remote-tracking branch is created.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Sep 01 '15 at 20:39

mayo

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Note to other noobs like me, the `folder` name in the command above should not be inside square brackets. – yoges nsamy May 10 '20 at 00:18
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Good point! I am not sure but it seems like a convention from i-dont-know-where that square brackets mean an optional parameter. – mayo May 10 '20 at 17:03

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '15 at 20:48

Other than in Subversion (SVN), git has separate namespaces for directories (file system folders), branches and tags. Thus https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn/tree/1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4/nolearn is not, per se, a branch. 1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4 is a commit ID, used here to refer to the revision created by the commit. dnouri/nolearn is the repository name on GitHub (repository nolearn on account dnouri) and the final nolearn in the URL is a directory within the content of revision 1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4.

The 'normal' way to get this code with git would be:

replicate the repository to your local machine
```
git clone https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn.git
```
(You can find this URL on the repository's page https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn, in the 'clone URL' field.)
enter the local repository
```
cd nolearn
```

check out the wanted revision

git checkout 1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4

change into the respective directory inside the repository
```
cd nolearn
```

it's less data consuming by using @mayo's answer: ```git clone --branch --single-branch ``` — Rico Neitzel, Mar 26 '18 at 08:28
That's true @RicoNeitzel, but AFAIK it's not what Git users would usually do, unless the amount of data really is a problem. (And if so, one should probably consider whether all that data really belongs into a single Git repo.) — das-g, Mar 26 '18 at 12:04

landareex · Answer 3 · 2015-09-01T20:37:39.807

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This is the link to the .zip : https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn/archive/1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4.zip

edited Sep 01 '15 at 20:37

answered Sep 01 '15 at 20:31

landareex

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Thanks for the reply, however, this is not the one I need! This is the latest version on `master` branch, not the one I need. – Ali Shakiba Sep 01 '15 at 20:36
That should work, I've inserted the right link:https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn/archive/1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4.zip – landareex Sep 01 '15 at 20:37
Thanks. It just worked. However, I wonder if there are any `git` hacks around? – Ali Shakiba Sep 01 '15 at 20:45
Git hacks? What do you mean? – landareex Sep 01 '15 at 20:47
I mean some switches in the command line, e.g. `git clone https://github.com/dnouri/nolearn --some-magic-switch 1659e4811e498dc1f442d8e6486d0831f85255b4` – Ali Shakiba Sep 01 '15 at 20:53
@Das-g mentioned the 'magic switch' you're looking for and the reason you couldn't download it. – landareex Sep 01 '15 at 20:55
Thanks! For everyone that uses Github and not the git CLI, I've found that the URL `https://github.com///archive/.zip` will download that branch. – Alex Mandelias Sep 21 '21 at 10:42

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 03 '23 at 21:00

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The solution for zip that would work for any repo and branch:

https://github.com/<username>/<repository>/archive/<branch>.zip

answered Jul 03 '23 at 21:00

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