Detailed explanation of download types and solutions restricted by Gitee

Gitee is an excellent domestic code hosting platform similar to GitHub, which is widely used in open source projects and internal enterprise code management. However, many people are not very clear about Gitee’s download restrictions. This article will introduce in detail Gitee's download limitations and solutions.

First of all, we need to understand the download types restricted by Gitee and their reasons.

1. Only supports downloading of open source projects

Gitee restricts downloading to only open source projects, so downloading of private projects is not supported. This restriction is mainly for the purpose of intellectual property protection to prevent unauthorized downloading of corporate private code.

2. Download speed limited

If you try to download a large open source project from Gitee, you may have noticed that the download speed is very slow. This is because Gitee limits each user's download speed when there are a lot of concurrent downloads. This limit is intended to protect server performance and bandwidth to ensure normal use by other users.

So, what solutions do we have to download the code of open source projects and private projects on Gitee? Below are several common solutions and methods.

1. Use Git tools for code cloning

On Gitee, every open source project includes a Git warehouse address. You can use Git tools to clone the entire repository locally. Git is a distributed version control system that supports almost all operating systems. The advantage of using Git tools is that you can avoid the problem of limited download speed. At the same time, you can also update and submit code to the warehouse.

For downloading private warehouses, you need to set the corresponding key on Gitee to obtain code permissions.

2. Use mirror sites to access

In addition to the Gitee official website, there are also some Gitee mirror sites in China. These sites improve the access speed of Gitee through technologies such as caching, acceleration, and load balancing. Some mirror sites also solve the problem of private projects being unable to be downloaded. Common Gitee mirror sites include Code Cloud (https://gitee.com/mirrors) and Tsinghua Mirror (https://mirror.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/help/gitee/ ), Alibaba Cloud Mirror (https://developer.aliyun.com/gitee), etc. When you cannot access the Gitee official website, you can consider using a mirror site to access it.

3. Downloading using temporary links

On Gitee, each file has a temporary link through which you can download the file directly. However, the link is only valid once and once the address expires, you will need to generate a new link.

4. Wait for the download speed limit time to end

Gitee will limit the download speed of each user when there are a large number of concurrent downloads. If the file you need to download is not particularly large, you may consider waiting until the download speed limit time expires before downloading.

In general, Gitee is a very good code hosting platform, but there are some limitations and problems in downloading. In order to overcome these limitations and problems, we can successfully download the code of open source projects and enterprise private projects by using Git tools to download, using mirror site access, using temporary links to download, and waiting for the download speed limit time to expire.

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