[SOLVED] How to clone git repository from its zip

How to clone git repository from its zip

I'm trying to clone a remote repository on github, but it is big and my connection doesn't seem to be stable enough, so I can't clone it successfully.

But I have successfully downloaded the .zip of the repository.

Is there a way to use this zip as it was created by git clone, so I can push, pull etc..?

Solution

A related post here provides the information needed to grab the .git directory and simplify the answer that umläute provided:

Grab the .git directory by cloning a bare repository

$ mkdir repo
$ git clone --bare http://github/user/repo repo

Make the .git directory and move the cloned files
```
$ mkdir repo/.git
$ mv repo/* repo/.git
```
Unzip the repository
```
$ unzip repo.zip
```
Re-initialize the repository
```
$ cd repo
$ git init
```
Verify you're sync'ed
```
$ git pull
```
Reset the HEAD to clean up the status
```
$ git reset HEAD
```

Here's the log for the repo ... repo location - http://github.com/udacity/fullstack-nanodegree-vm

$ git log
commit ebcbda650bc81d7f4856f5314a0689cea5b43086
Merge: 574774b b5b787e
Author: Karl Krueger <karl@udacity.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 7 11:39:54 2015 -0700`

        Merge pull request #3 from pmallory/sharedDirAlert

        Add a login alert to explain how to access Vagrant's shared directory

commit b5b787efdb1ecec0c3c9c7f9c0fd4732f984fcb3
Author: Philip Mallory <philip@udacity.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 6 15:40:32 2015 -0700`

       move the alert into the motd

commit b8012f33c86b0d19fc4c2b972af092e88d00978f
Author: Philip Mallory <philip@udacity.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 6 14:32:01 2015 -0700`

       Add a login alert to explain how to access Vagrant's shared directory

commit 574774ba29ccd661154431d5600240f090440c37
Author: Lorenzo Brown <lorenzo@udacity.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 11 14:08:02 2015 -0700`

       Update pg_config.sh

       Added installs for Auth&Auth

commit 88fc5537b1a0017a1d76af4587a22412473809a4
Author: Lorenzo Brown <lorenzo@udacity.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 4 13:00:25 2015 -0800`

       Update and rename vagrant to vagrant/catalog/README.txt

commit f978cdc14c62b7295d8da1a95452faaa1bd108b8
Author: Lorenzo Brown <lorenzo@udacity.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 4 11:06:03 2015 -0800`

       Update Vagrantfile

       switched to port forwarding on 8080

commit d6a3a26578ef3c6d01d28abca76d817938892c7f
Author: Lorenzo Brown <lorenzo@udacity.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 3 14:52:34 2015 -0800`

       Update Vagrantfile

       Added:

       config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
       config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5000, host: 5000

       FSF uses these two ports for lessons 2 & 3 respectively.

commit 752a79e408c7328ef7f1766d1b97bb468ffed90a
Author: Mike Wales <michael.wales@udacity.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 2 11:21:29 2015 -0800`

       Removed .vagrant directory

commit 5af9d19adf9ab19b1d886f6cc78e556f864b42dd
Author: Mike Wales <michael.wales@udacity.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 2 11:16:45 2015 -0800`

       Initial commit.