unpacking git files

[Linux for blind general discussion]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:47:57 -0400
Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:

> That won't work in this case, since I already tried it.  It's requiring
> a login which I cannot now do.
> 

git clone works for public github repositories without needing login:

```
[kdetest at localhost ~]$ git clone https://github.com/joewing/jwm
Cloning into 'jwm'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 11191, done.
remote: Total 11191 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 11191
Receiving objects: 100% (11191/11191), 6.00 MiB | 3.18 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (7847/7847), done.
[kdetest at localhost ~]$ rm -fr jwm/
[kdetest at localhost ~]$ git clone https://github.com/joewing/jwm.git
Cloning into 'jwm'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 11191, done.
remote: Total 11191 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 11191
Receiving objects: 100% (11191/11191), 6.00 MiB | 3.18 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (7847/7847), done.
[kdetest at localhost ~]$ ls .ssh
ls: cannot access '.ssh': No such file or directory
[kdetest at localhost ~]$ 
```

also ".git" (which holds the repository's history) is a directory - not a file,
see: https://git-scm.com/ .

Which command are you using exactly?

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:14:49
> > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: unpacking git files
> >
> > Try
> > git clone http://github.com/whatever/whatever.git
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:13:42 -0400
> > Subject: unpacking git files
> >  
> > > If you download a git file how is it possible to have git unpack the file
> > > for you into its own directory tree?
> > > I failed to write my git credentials in braille and haven't used them for
> > > a very long time so may be able to get a git file using wget but for now I
> > > don't know how to unpack the file.
> > >
> > >
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