git download, not clone fetch etc

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Ok, so i want a command line tool to download a github repo without creating a local git repo.

One idea is a download tool to download github zips from a url like

https://github.com/lukeholder/fuel-website/zipball/master

im on windows 7 and dont want to have to install curl or wget. only native tool?

it would preferable to not download a zip but just somehow clone the repo and not have the local git repo ever created.

ideas without using git? In effect it would be a git clone and del .git directory

Just curious, why? If you just clone and delete the .git, it's just done. — caveman, Nov 12 '10 at 05:56
@JakubNarębski `fatal: depth 0 is not a positive number` Did this option change? (Using v2.7.4 on Mac OS X) — F Lekschas, Nov 12 '16 at 23:27

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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If you were willing to still use git (just not create a repository) you could do it with git archive as explained in this question.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '16 at 05:33

Immediately above the main directory (to the right) for the folder/files being viewed is a tab with a URL and a "Download" button to pull all the files.

If you DO NOT see those options then you must click the directory link above the viewing area (i.e. some name > some folder > some other folder) to essentially back out of the directory until you see the option to "Download" and that is the entire compressed file to be downloaded.

git download, not clone fetch etc

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