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I'm trying to clone a remote repository on github, but it is big and my connection doesn't seem to be stable enough, so I can't clone it successfully.
But I have successfully downloaded the .zip of the repository.
Is there a way to use this zip as it was created by git clone, so I can push, pull etc..?
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Open up file explorer or finder and then move the “. git” folder from your cloned version into the top level of the version you downloaded via zip. This should then automatically make git see the changes.
zip , which means you need to double-click to “unzip” or de-compress the folder. After you unzip it, a new folder will appear named in this format, REPOSITORY-BRANCH , which refers to the repository name (such as leaflet-map-simple ) and the branch name (such as main ), and it will contain the repo files.
If you're intended to contribute to this repo, then you should clone it. Without cloning you're not able to push changes. It will take longer because you must download whole diff history (many git objects). As bigger projects is as longer it would take, but only once (later you download only newer commits).
A related post here provides the information needed to grab the .git directory and simplify the answer that umläute provided:
Grab the .git directory by cloning a bare repository
$ mkdir repo $ git clone --bare http://github/user/repo repo Make the .git directory and move the cloned files
$ mkdir repo/.git $ mv repo/* repo/.git Unzip the repository
$ unzip repo.zip Re-initialize the repository
$ cd repo $ git init Verify you're sync'ed
$ git pull Reset the HEAD to clean up the status
$ git reset HEAD Here's the log for the repo ... repo location - http://github.com/udacity/fullstack-nanodegree-vm
$ git log commit ebcbda650bc81d7f4856f5314a0689cea5b43086 Merge: 574774b b5b787e Author: Karl Krueger <[email protected]> Date: Tue Apr 7 11:39:54 2015 -0700` Merge pull request #3 from pmallory/sharedDirAlert Add a login alert to explain how to access Vagrant's shared directory commit b5b787efdb1ecec0c3c9c7f9c0fd4732f984fcb3 Author: Philip Mallory <[email protected]> Date: Mon Apr 6 15:40:32 2015 -0700` move the alert into the motd commit b8012f33c86b0d19fc4c2b972af092e88d00978f Author: Philip Mallory <[email protected]> Date: Mon Apr 6 14:32:01 2015 -0700` Add a login alert to explain how to access Vagrant's shared directory commit 574774ba29ccd661154431d5600240f090440c37 Author: Lorenzo Brown <[email protected]> Date: Wed Mar 11 14:08:02 2015 -0700` Update pg_config.sh Added installs for Auth&Auth commit 88fc5537b1a0017a1d76af4587a22412473809a4 Author: Lorenzo Brown <[email protected]> Date: Wed Mar 4 13:00:25 2015 -0800` Update and rename vagrant to vagrant/catalog/README.txt commit f978cdc14c62b7295d8da1a95452faaa1bd108b8 Author: Lorenzo Brown <[email protected]> Date: Wed Feb 4 11:06:03 2015 -0800` Update Vagrantfile switched to port forwarding on 8080 commit d6a3a26578ef3c6d01d28abca76d817938892c7f Author: Lorenzo Brown <[email protected]> Date: Tue Feb 3 14:52:34 2015 -0800` Update Vagrantfile Added: config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080 config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5000, host: 5000 FSF uses these two ports for lessons 2 & 3 respectively. commit 752a79e408c7328ef7f1766d1b97bb468ffed90a Author: Mike Wales <[email protected]> Date: Mon Feb 2 11:21:29 2015 -0800` Removed .vagrant directory commit 5af9d19adf9ab19b1d886f6cc78e556f864b42dd Author: Mike Wales <[email protected]> Date: Mon Feb 2 11:16:45 2015 -0800` Initial commit. If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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