There is an answer and you don't need to go though that horrid process to download software, install and register keys and whatnot on GitHub, etc.! To simply download a repository as a zip file: add the extra path '/zipball/master/' to the end of the repository URL and voila, it gives you a zip file of the whole lot. For example,

When you are on a project page, you can press the Download ZIP button which is located under the green <> Code drop down: This allows you to download the most recent version of the code as a zip archive. If you aren't seeing that button, it is likely because you aren't on the main project page. To get there, click on the left-most tab labeled ...

Rather than link to download a specific file within the repo, you should use GitHub's Releases feature to associate downloadable data (such as compiled binaries) with the tagged version of the source code used to generate that data.

Nothing that you download from the internet is 100% safe. However, you can generally gauge the safety of code on Github by the following factors: # of Contributors/Commits: This tells you that there are a lot of people working on it, not just a single bad actor. While it is possible that it is a group conspiracy to infect users' computers, a ...

Jul 28, 2014 · Using GitHub's Release feature, it is possible to provide a link to download a specific version of the published software. However, every time a release is made, the gh-page also needs to be update...

May 31, 2011 · Somewhat related, to let git download pull request 123 and patch it into mylocalbranch locally, run: git checkout -b mylocalbranch git pull origin pull/921/head Share

In GitHub, click on profile picture (top right) then [ Settings > Developer Settings > Personal Access Tokens > Fine Grained Tokens ]. Then click on Generate New Token , select Only select repositories and choose the private repositories you want to grant read-only access to.

Feb 16, 2013 · Github is doing this intentionally, to prevent project owners from distributing compiled binaries via Github. They want Github to be a platform for sharing source code, not a platform for sharing files. It is also a way to prevent misuse (distributing non-open movies/etc).

Dec 24, 2016 · I need to use a nxParser library to parse my NTriple files in eclipse. Apparently, the only source that perfectly works is this github code but this is just the source code and I need a built-in ...

Jun 6, 2014 · Although this question is similar to GitHub latest release, it's actually different -- it's about a link that means "the latest version of the download file itself". GitHub provides a "Latest" URL...