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Obtains a local copy of a remote Git repository.

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BitBucket - download source as ZIP

I know I can get the project through git clone command, but is there any way, how to download the project through the web interface from BitBucket.org? In the best way, I am looking for a way to download a project source as ZIP compress file.
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How to git clone a specific tag

From git-clone(1) Manual Page --branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository. I tried git clone --branch But it does not work. It returns: warning: Remote branch 2.13.0 not…
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git clone through ssh

I have a project on which I created a git repository: $ cd myproject $ git init $ git add . $ git commit I the wanted to create a bare clone on another machine: $ cd .. $ git clone --bare myproject …
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Bower install using only https?

I am trying to set up Bower on a build server at our organization's data center, but git's port does not appear to be open on the data center's firewall. I can use the git command line client to clone via https://[repo], but not git://[repo]. Is…
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Files showing as modified directly after a Git clone

I'm having an issue with a repository at the moment, and though my Git-fu is usually good, I can't seem to solve this issue. When I clone this repository, then cd into the repository, git status shows several files as changed. Note: I haven't opened…
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How to complete a git clone for a big project on an unstable connection?

I am trying to git clone the LibreOffice codebase, but at the moment I have an internet connection of about 300kbps and it's just anything but stable. I can get the connection back any moment, but then the git clone process already stopped working,…
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GIT clone repo across local file system in windows

I am a complete Noob when it comes to GIT. I have been just taking my first steps over the last few days. I setup a repo on my laptop, pulled down the Trunk from an SVN project (had some issues with branches, not got them working), but all seems…
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Git clone particular version of remote repository

I cloned a remote git repository about a month ago. The remote repository has undergone many changes and has now become unstable. Now I need another copy of the repository, version identical to the one I cloned a month ago. How do I do this?
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git clone from another directory

I am trying to clone repo from another directory. Lets say I have one repo in C:/folder1 and C:/folder2 I want to clone the work in folder1 into folder2. What would I type into the command prompt to do this? It seems that often when cloning a URL…
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Git: Permission denied (publickey) fatal - Could not read from remote repository. while cloning Git repository

I am unable to clone a Git repository, and getting this error: krishna.soni@KRISHNACHANDRAS /c/Projects $ git clone http://stage.abc.com:10088/pqr http:/// Cloning into ''... fatal: could not read Username for…
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Unable to Connect to GitHub.com For Cloning

I am trying to clone the angular-phonecat git repository, but I am getting the following message when I enter the command in my Git Bash: $ git clone git://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git Cloning into 'angular-phonecat'... fatal: unable…
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Git clone without .git directory

Is there a flag to pass to git when doing a clone, say don't clone the .git directory? If not, how about a flag to delete the .git directory after the clone?
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How do I clone a GitHub wiki?

How do I clone my GitHub repository's wiki? I know it's saved as a separate Git repository, but I can't remember the path. I've tried ...reponame/wiki.git and ...reponame.git/wiki, but neither are correct.
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How to update a git clone --mirror?

I have created a git repository to mirror a live site (which is a non-bare git repository): git clone --mirror ssh://user@example.com/path/to/repo Now, to keep this mirror clone updated with all changes from its remote origin, which command or…
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Empty Git submodule folder when repo cloned

I have one repo hosted at https://github.com/aikiframework/json . On my local copy, I added a submodule using the command git submodule add git@github.com:jcubic/json-rpc.git json-rpc Then I did a commit and push, and the changes appear on GitHub…
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