Learning Bits and Bytes

Google provides plain text version of Git repository at different URL. This URL is in the format of projectname.googlecode.com/git . This gives latest version of Git repository. To view history of a particular version use URL pattern projectname.googlecode.com/git-history/versionnumber . Using this we can see a particular tagged version or a particular commit version files. For eg. Selenium version 2.28 can be viewed using https://selenium.googlecode.com/git-history/6322c139ceec Version number can be obtained using Browse option in the source menu of main project which can be accessed using URL pattern code.google.com/p/projectname/source/browse/

    Sites hosting open source projects provides an online viewer for browsing source code without actually checking out source code using SVN/Git clients. Checking out entire repository will take long time. Also with Git there is no straight forward way to checkout only a particular directory. Cloning Git repos takes long time as Git downloads entire repository to local machine. Even with sparse checkout, Git downloads entire repository. When bandwidth is a concern, one cannot checkout entire repository.     One can use GNU Wget to recursively download files from online code repositories. For windows this can be downloaded from http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/     Command to download a directory and its child directories and all files in it recursively excluding index.html is below. This will not download parent directories and files from external sites. wget --cut-dirs=2 --level=15 --include-directories=src/main/java --recursive --n...