How to download .zip from GitHub for a particular commit sha?
GitGithubGit Problem Overview
I want to download a .zip with the source of a library hosted on github, but I don't want the master, because every time I download I could be downloading a different version.
This particular library does not have tags, so I can't use that.
So how do I download the source.zip for a specific commit sha?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
You can put the sha that you want in the download url:
https://github.com/{username}/{projectname}/archive/{sha}.zip
As a general rule, if you have a url that works, you can replace "master" with the specific sha you want.
On unix:
wget https://github.com/{username}/{projectname}/archive/{sha}.zip
Keep in mind that if this is a private repo then wget will not work unless you pass an OAuth token as well.
Here's more info on that:
Solution 2 - Git
When viewing the commit's code, click the button "Browse Code" on the upper right, after that click on "Download ZIP".
Solution 3 - Git
This is a an old question, but wanted to mention that if you want just the commit as a patch, and not the whole repo at the time of the commit, you can use:
$ wget http://github.com/username/repo/commit/sha1.patch
# ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^
# change change change
The /commit and .patch parts being the important part.
This is particularly useful if you want to merge in a change that was reversed a while back and therefore doesn't exist in the forked repo.
Solution 4 - Git
For those who came here looking for a way to download a particular file (or directory), from a particular commit (or branch):
git_user="user-name"
git_project="project-name"
commit_or_branch="sha-id or branch name"
dir_or_file="path/to/dir-or-file"
archive_url="https://github.com/${git_user}/${git_project}/archive/${commit_or_branch}.tar.gz"
wget -O - ${archive_url} | tar xz --strip=1 "${git_project}-${commit_or_branch}/${dir_or_file}"
The advantage of downloading the archive as tar.gz, is that you can directly pipe wget into tar command, so it will extract the gz on the fly.