How to download a subfolder on GitHub (step sharing)

GitHub is one of the world's most popular code repositories and version control platforms, where many developers around the world jointly create, manage and share their projects. GitHub provides an unlimited number of public code repositories, but sometimes we only need a subfolder within them, not the entire repository. Well, this article will guide you on how to download a subfolder on GitHub.

First, we need to understand the basic concepts of subfolders in Git. In Git, we can use git submodule to create submodules, which allows us to manage subprojects stored separately in different version control repositories. However, for the folder we are downloading now, it may not be a submodule, but a separate folder contained in the repository. So, below we will explain how to download a folder from a Git repository.

Step 1: Open the GitHub homepage

We need to open the GitHub official homepage in the browser (https://www.github.com ).

Step 2: Find the repository

Now enter the name of the repository you are looking for in the search bar and press the "Enter" key on your keyboard to start your search. When we find the repository, click on it to open the home page of the repository.

Step 3: Get the link to the subfolder

After opening the homepage, find the subfolder of the file you need to download. Then, click on the folder's name to access the folder's home page. Within the folder, we can see the folder name in the URL suffix.

Step 4: Create Download Link

Now, we need to create the correct download link so that we can download only the required subfolder instead of the entire repository. To do this we need to combine the following URL prefix with the subfolder name and a ZIP file extension.

https://github.com/用户名/存储库名/archive/master.zip/子文件夹名称

Please note that we only need to replace "Username", "Repository Name" and "Subfolder Name". Make sure to use your actual username, repository name, and subfolder name. If we want to download the "readme" folder in the Python programming language homepage, the URL here will be:

https://github.com/python/readthedocs.org/archive/master.zip/readthedocs/templates/readme

Step 5: Download subfolder

Everything Once ready, we need to access this link using a browser. When we visit, the browser will provide us with a .zip compressed file. Please download it and unzip it, which contains the required subfolders.

Now we have successfully downloaded the required subfolders from the GitHub repository. Note that this process may take varying amounts of time depending on factors such as your network speed and the size of the subfolders.

Conclusion

In this article, we showed you how to download a subfolder on GitHub from a Git repository. By following the above steps, you can easily download the required folders without having to download the entire repository. This is very useful for developers who only want a single folder.

The above is the detailed content of How to download a subfolder on GitHub (step sharing). For more information, please follow other related articles on the PHP Chinese website!