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wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1
# --no-check-cerftificate was necessary for me to have wget not puke about https
curl -LJO https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1
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MetaKomora commented Dec 22, 2020

Thank you so much

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DivineAlien commented Jan 21, 2021

nice nice

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arcticOak2 commented Jan 29, 2021

Thank you so much <3

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solankiravi commented Feb 9, 2021

None of these examples work for me. 404 is returned.

I think you are trying to clone the private repo. To download private repo you should use a token.

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wook-coder commented Feb 10, 2021

TQ

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FASLADODO commented Feb 14, 2021

Thanks

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prasadkudav commented Mar 22, 2021 •
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When I download with this way from github. I get xml file with some metadata, It does not download the actual file.
How to download the actual file ?

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apolopena commented Mar 30, 2021

When I download with this way from github. I get xml file with some metadata, It does not download the actual file.
How to download the actual file ?

@prasadkudav,
You need to download the raw file which is kept at the domain raw.githubusercontent.com.
So a URL like this:
https://github.com/apolopena/gitpod-laravel8-starter/blob/main/README.md
Would need to be curled from here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apolopena/gitpod-laravel8-starter/main/README.md

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81322068 commented May 18, 2021

thank you!

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richardkeep commented May 21, 2021

@jwebcat what about a private repo? How do you pass the token?

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okparaa commented May 29, 2021

thank you so much

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mleonardblair commented Jul 17, 2021

it doesn't work with me, i tried: wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1
Said Unable to establish SSL connection.

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khorramk commented Sep 25, 2021

Thanks

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taylortaurus commented Oct 15, 2021

thx!

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SalimF commented Oct 31, 2021

Works solves my server upgrade

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pablodz commented Nov 9, 2021

What about http connections

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Yuchengw commented Dec 11, 2021

Thanks, it worked as a magic!

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alielmajdaoui commented Feb 10, 2022

In a Dockerfile, you can use ADD to download from any source. it's helpful when your image doesn't have curl or wget, or if you can't use https.

Example:

ADD https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay/releases/download/v3.1.0.0/s6-overlay-noarch-3.1.0.0.tar.xz /tmp
RUN tar -C / -Jxpf /tmp/s6-overlay-noarch-3.1.0.0.tar.xz

Source: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay#using-cmd

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cchwala commented May 4, 2022

๐Ÿ‘

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showgood163 commented Jun 25, 2022

Thanks!

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vancuongdbj commented Sep 14, 2022

Verify Github on Galxe. gid:S8JDzMFPiU7U23PJjf3RMJ

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NHLOCAL commented Oct 17, 2022

ื”ื’ืขืชื™ ืœื–ื” ื“ื•ืงื ื“ืจืš ื’ื•ื’ืœ ื•ืขื•ื‘ื“ ืžืฆื•ื™ืŸ!

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basejumpa commented Mar 26, 2023

I was stuck and your curl line just helped me. Thx!

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cig0 commented Nov 21, 2023

Thx!

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00unkn0wn00 commented Dec 31, 2023

Could You Show how to do it on a self hosted git server?

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