How do I download a ZIP file of an entire project from Google Code when there are no prepared downloads available?
This is what I see on the checkout page:
Command-line access
Use this command to anonymously check out the latest project source code:
svn checkout http://myproject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ myproject-read-only
But I'm working on Windows and I don't have the svn binaries ... do I need these?
I can access individual source code file or view the Subversion HTML pages, but that just allows me to access source code files one-by-one.
If you don't want to install anything but do want to download an SVN or GIT repository, then you can use this: http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com/
I have nothing to do with this project, but I just used it now and it saved me a few minutes. Maybe it will help someone.
If you install TortoiseSVN you can use SVN under windows. It also gives you the SVN binaries. You needn't do the checkout from the command-line though as it integrates into Windows Explorer for you.
If you don't want to install TortoiseSVN, you can simply install 'Subversion for Windows' from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/
After installing, just open up a command prompt, go the folder you want to download into, then past in the checkout command as indicated on the project's 'source' page. E.g.
svn checkout http://projectname.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ projectname-read-only
Note the space between the URL and the last string is intentional, the last string is the folder name into which the source will be downloaded.
Thanks Mr. Tom Chantler
adding that to get the exe http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com/ to pull the SVN source
just note that suppose you're downloading the below project:
you have to enter exactly the following to donwload it in the exe URL:
http://myproject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
developer not taking care of appending the h t t p : / / if it does not exist.
Hope it saves somebody's time.
Another simple solution without the TortoiseSVN overhead is RapidSVN. It is a lightweight open-source SVN client that is easy to install and easy to use.
The Download SVN tool did also work quite well, but it had problems with SVN repositories that don't provide a web interface. RapidSVN works fine with those.
If you have a github account and don't want to download software, you can export to github, then download a zip from github.
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I just want to create a simple gitbook on my local drive, not attached to any remote repository. I went to File->Change Library Path... and pointed to the place where I want my files to go. When I create a new book, Gitbook puts some stuff in that library path that looks right: README.md, etc. But when I change README.md in Gitbook and save the file, it doesn't save to the README.md it created when I created the book. In fact I can't even figure out where it saved my changes, even after doing a find/grep on my entire hard drive.
Edit: I need to know where it saves, so I can run the command-line gitbook to create a pdf.
Which OS are you using?
On Windows, the default directory is C:\Users\username\GitBook
I had troubles with this when I first started too.
Here is some background that may help you
There are three flavors of gitbook: The online editor (storage is on Gitbook.com or Github), the offline editor (same storage + local at C:\Users\Documents\Gitbook), and the CLI toolchain (any storage you desire).
If you talking about issuing commands, you want to install the toolchain
If you are running Windows, I can't help, but when you switch to Ubuntu :) go to toolchain.gitbook.com to see the the instructions.
Hope this helps
Yes, its weird that the changes are not immediately reflected in the physical file. I changed something and saved again, that actually made the first save visible. :D Try it once, this may work for you too.
Gitbook Editor works with git history only. So externally edited and not committed files in that folder will not be identified in the editor. However, when you save the files in gitbook editor, it creates a commit and then only it will be reflected in the physical drive location.
You can find more about the issue here: https://github.com/GitbookIO/feedback/issues/101
Currently there's no way to explicitly tell GitBook where to store files, however we use a simple workaround which allows us to use the GitBook Editor to edit a book in our own git repository but keep control of how and when we commit changes.
We have a docs directory in our project which contains the gitbook which is symlinked to the folder GitBook uses to store its own books. This directory has its own .git folder ignored from a parent directory as we don't need GitBooks commits.
I was thinking to use dropbox to upload my source code of a web-application. For this folder i would create a shared link. This link i like to use to download all the latest source files on my test server (instead of using s/FTP).
Now i know you can use dropbox with linux by installing their version, but it requires to create account. I don't want to use a account, and for sure don't want to use my own account.
Is there anyway to use a shared (folder) link, and download all the files in that folder command-line, without a account (maybe something like wget) ? There is no need for live-syncing, it would be fine to trigger the download with some bash script.
Thanks.
If you're ok with your links being public (which i think is not a good idea) , then you can just create a file with a list of links to your files and then create a bash script to loop over each line of the file get the link with wget
If you want to use authentication, you'll have to register for a Dropbox API key and then create a script (in python,ruby or java etc) to authenticate and get the files.
If you don't have a specific need for dropbox, i'll recommend you use git (or similar). With git you'll just have to create the repository on your server and clone it on your desktop. Then you can just edit your files and push it to the server.... it's so much easier.
Rogier, github has become the norm for hosting code. There are other options (Sourceforge, Google Code, Beanstalk) or you can set up a private git repository on your own computer.
Somewhere deep in my browser history there's an article about how to do that.
However a little googling turned up http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652414. Let me know if you can't find some satisfactory instructions on your own of how to set up a git repo on your computer.
I am trying to download http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/ from google code.
Having not done this before, have installed Tortoise SVN and tried various addresses to SVN Checkout.
Addresses I have tried that have resulted in a (405 method not allowed)
https://code.google.com/p/pagedown/
http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/
http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/source/browse/hg
How can I find out which address I should be using?
Also, I am logged into the site as I have a gmail with google.
(Hopefully I have found the correct WMD editor too). Thanks
the source is using a mercurial repository not a subversion one ...
install tortoisehg ( http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/ ) and then use the url provided ( https://code.google.com/p/pagedown/ ).
For new mercurial users you should read Joel's great article on http://hginit.com/
Cheers!
This project uses mercurial, not subversion, for version control; you're using the wrong program to download it, as tortoise svn is for subversion. You can try using Tortoise hg.
I'm frankly not even sure this particular project actually uses Subversion - I couldn't tell for sure.
But assuming it does, you can answer most of your Subversion questions here:
http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/SubversionFAQ
In particular, you can do an anonymous SVN checkout like this:
http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/SubversionFAQ#How_do_I_check_out_code_anonymously?
You can use a Subversion client to check out a project's "trunk" code
by requesting this URL: http://projectname.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
PS:
All the project page talks about is "Mercurial".
"Tortoise" supports several version control protocols: CVS, SVN ... and Mercurial:
http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/
http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/MercurialFAQ
I'm working with a shell account in a shared system and I would like to use some version control software for my bash scripts and config files.
It must works on Linux with no dependencies, just unpack it in my home dir. I don't need remote checkout, branching or other fancy tricks. I want to be able to commit my changes and restore them if needed.
Try Git.
fossil.
Single binary.
No dependencies.
Version control.
Built in ticket tracker and wiki.
CLI and web interface.
Mercurial. You can just install it in a local directory and make sure that's in your PATH. It gives you a lot of power.
Update for comment:
Most hosting account have way more storage than you'll ever need (e.g. WebFaction gives you 10GB on a $10/mo account), so install Python locally. When you do the build/install simply add --prefix=/home/you/local. It will create local/bin/, local/lib/, etc. Now you have Python and then you can install Mercurial using your very own python.
If your account has little storage, or is missing critical build tools (like gcc, etc.), then you are using the wrong hosting.
I just found Darcs looking at previous questions. It fits perfectly to my needs.
Thanks Adam for your suggestion but Git depends on several packages which versions are not all available to me.
I use Subversion. Works fine for local access.
I also remotely check out my scripts to most of my shell accounts, I must say. It's a really convenient way to make sure the setup of the different accounts stays aligned.
I'd like to download the Trac database so I can view its tickets offline. Is there anyway to achieve this? I.e. if I need to leave the office and bring my laptop with me, how can I bring the tickets with me without having to connect to the company network?
I know that Mylyn can download and sync tickets via it's trac connector but I'd like some stand-alone viewer.
See Simple Defects (SD).
I particularly like the "One-tweet install" idea.
I’m installing #SD (http://syncwith.us)
after reading about it on #StackOverflow
curl fsck.com/sd|perl;
export $PATH=~/sd/bin:$PATH; sd
Note that you can clone Trac (and other bugtrackers) in SD:
sd clone --from trac:https://trac.parrot.org/parrot
Seeing as you don't want to install a server, how about using RSS? IIRC, Trac let lets you get RSS feeds for each person, so you can have a feed of things assigned to you.
All you need do then is get a nice client that will download these tickets. You should be able to access a plaintext version without internet connection.
If that's not flexible enough, you could write a script on the server to publish a feed using the database directly.
And if RSS isn't for you (and your email is available offline), you could mail reports home. Trac also has this built in.
The default Trac installation uses a combination of SQLite to matintain all of the data. Attachements are stored on the file system.
In the folder containing the trac site, find \db\trac.db
This file can be viewed using the SQLite manager Firefox Addon
Happy hunting.
And if RSS or email isn't your notification of choice, there's a trac plugin that will let you receive task notifications on your Remember The Milk todo list.
See: http://1.www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/3580/?forum=ideas&hl=bs&topic=3580
If your objective is simply to view the tickets offline, how about
Run a report with all the tickets (or all those you're interested in).
Select either the comma-delimited or tab-delimited download link at the bottom of the page.
Import the downloaded file into Excel.
you could install it on a local machine
You can host the trac locally and set up the connectionstring point to your dowloaded database.
Sure. Install a web server locally, install trac, get it set up the same (or similar) way to the way it is on the live version and then script the server to publish db backups and write a local script to download those and restore them over your database.
It's not simple (installing Trac is a battle on its own from my experience of it) but every element is highly googleable =)
The trac client FatBug (http://fat-bug.com/) listed in
https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/Clients
seems to do the exact what was described by the OP. I bumped into it after I just checked SD. SD seems trival on Linux, but heavy on Windows, it depends on Perl & CPAN.