Download A Git Repo
January - 2022
This is a bit of a hack, but to download a git repo into your current directory you can do:
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/alanwsmith/ideas.alanwsmith.com
git fetch
git checkout main
rm -rf .git
The reason you might want to use this over git clone
is because you can do it in your current directory. The git clone
command clones the repo down into a sub directory.
credit to this post for the technique