gitlab get tar of a specific branch via command line

Question

I'm using gitlab. When I go into the interface, on each branch I can download the source code as a zip, tar or whatsoever.

I am making rpm spec files for which I would need the possibility to download the tar ball using command line. since I added my rsa key i can do git clone without problems:

git clone http://gitlab/group/project.git
Cloning into 'project'...
remote: Counting objects: 1885, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (826/826), done.
remote: Total 1885 (delta 1194), reused 1496 (delta 954)
Receiving objects: 100% (1885/1885), 1.30 MiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1194/1194), done.
Checking connectivity... done

However doing

wget http://gitlab/group/project/repository/archive.zip

gets me these errors:

Resolving gitlab (gitlab)... 10.1.253.75
Connecting to gitlab (gitlab)|10.1.253.75|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Authorization failed.

Answer 1

Since GitLab 6.2 and issue 5253, it should be:

GET /projects/:id/repository/archive

But that seems for internal use only, since you cannot know the id of a project as a user (only its name).

Don't forget, as shown in ability.rb, that downloading an archive is linked to a permission. Make sure you have that "download_code" permission set for your project.

Here, it must be a permission issue, because, for instance:

wget http://demo.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-recipes/repository/archive.zip

That works just fine, and get the content of that project without any issue.

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However, as the OP Chris Maes comments and mentions in issue 6645, as as illustrated by app/models/ability.rb:

 if project && project.public?

... that "dowload_code" feature is only for public projects.

Answer 2

For me the private_token and the sha or ref parameters does not worked together. So, I changed the way, and I tell my private token via a header parameter to the Gitlab API, like this:

wget http://{{your_host}}/api/v3/projects/{{project_id}}/repository/archive?sha={{commit_sha}} --header='PRIVATE-TOKEN: {{private_token}}'

Answer 3

try this

curl http://$yourhost:$port/$yourgroup/$yourrepo/repository/archive.zip\?ref\=$yourbranch\&\private_token\=$yourtoken -o newpackage.zip

Answer 4

With the newer version of gitlab, you can use

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/repository/archive?sha=<commit_sha>"

You can also pass different archive format, e.g tar.bz2

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/repository/archive.tar.bz2?sha=<commit_sha>"

Answer 5

I didn't want to have to get the project ID first, but rather use group|org and repository name similar to the Github HTTP API. This is what works for me on 11.9.0-ce.0

Private/Internal Project

curl "https://gitlab.yourdomain.com/api/v4/projects/engineering%2Faccount-service/repository/archive?sha=some-branch-name" \
  -H "Private-Token: $GITLAB_TOKEN" \
  -o /tmp/account-service-branch-name.tar.gz

Public Project

curl "https://gitlab.yourdomain.com/engineering/account-service/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=some-branch-name" \
  -o /tmp/account-service-branch-name.tar.gz

In this example

• "group" is engineering
• "repository" is account-service

Don't forget the %2F between group and repo

Hope it helps anyone