📂 GitHub Clone Directory — ghcd

A CLI to clone¹ a subdirectory of a GitHub repository

npx ghcd@latest [options] <url> [dir]

Usage

Open the subdirectory you want to clone in GitHub, and copy the URL. Then run:

npx ghcd@latest https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app

This will download create-next-app directory of the vercel/next.js repository into a new folder.

The https://github.com/ part is optional, so you can also run:

npx ghcd@latest vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app

Specifying the output directory

You can specify the output directory by passing directory name as the second argument:

npx ghcd@latest vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app my-copy-of-create-next-app

Options

--init / -i

Initialize a new git repository in the downloaded directory.

--help / -h

Show help.

Footnotes

1. The term clone is used loosely here. 🫣 The CLI does not actually clone the repository, but rather downloads the files into a new folder. ↩