git-plunder
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This will download a .git folder from an URL and then restores the code. First version.
This is a proof-of-concept tool for this article.
First off, make sure you've got a working installation of NodeJS and npm. Then install it using npm:
$ npm install -g git-plunder
First make sure to cd into an empty directory, as the tool will write to your cwd.
$ git-plunder http://www.example.co/
FAQs
Plunder a git url. Don't use it.
We found that git-plunder demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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