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When I visit a GitHub page of a new project that I find interesting, I would like to hack on or use as an end-user I don't even have to click on the clipboard i
by uxp 16y ago
When I visit a GitHub page of a new project that I find interesting, I would like to hack on or use as an end-user I don't even have to click on the clipboard icon to get the URL. I just take the URL straight from my browser and put it into my terminal to obtain a local copy over https, or by changing https to git and adding .git at the end:
git clone https://github.com/USER/PROJECTNAME
git clone git://github.com/USER/PROJECTNAME.git
Can you tell me off the top of your head how to checkout the source for $RANDOMPROJECT on sourceforge? What's the common URL to browse the sourcecode? One of my buggest complaints about sourceforge is that there is no easy way to grab an actual URL of a package for a project to download without manually editing it if you wanted to cURL or Wget it to a remote server you are shelled into. After enough years I've learned to download packages from sourceforge using this URL form:
curl -O http://MIRRORNAME.dl.sourceforge.net/project/PROJECTNAME/SOMERANDOMFOLDER/PROJECTNAME-PROJECTVERSION/PROJECTNAME-PROJECTVERSION.tar.gz
My hats off to the guys at GitHub. They took usability to the next level.
- kunley 16y ago> Can you tell me off the top of your head how to checkout the source for $RANDOMPROJECT on sourceforge? I can't. That was the point, I'm always lost there..