Easily pull library from github?

[gaelbeltran]

I have experience with programming but I'm pretty new to source control.

I'm using bitbucket(unlimited private repos) and Jetbrains WebStorm.

 

How can I easily  get only the library code, without the examples and other things? Is there an easier way to set-up and start a new project?

[Arlefreak]

The main library is at the build folder, so you can grab it from there 

[rich]

Or use githubs "download zip" feature, then you'll get the whole lot (the examples and docs are pretty essential imho) in a single file.

 

https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/archive/master.zip

[gaelbeltran]

Thanks for your responses

 

Oh yes, I know I can get the whole source with the download feature, I've been doing that.

But I'm wondering if there's a git command that let's you download just the engine source to your own repo, to start a new project.

[callmehiphop]

If you registered Phaser as a bower component you could easily install it (assuming you have bower install globally) by typing

$ bower install phaser

OR, if you reaaally wanted to, you could create a Yeoman generator and scaffold an entire Phaser project by simple typing

$ yo phaser

If you guys have an interest in this, I could send a PR to help out.

[bkurtz13]

Go to the github repo. Open the build folder, then click on "phaser.js". Click the "Raw" button to open it in your browser. Right click and "save as".

[Chris]

Well, git has no feature to download a single file.

Since the code is hosted on github, you can navigate to the build folder, pick either phaser.js or phaser.min.js (I would not recommend the minified version for development).

After the page has loaded the file content, you can click the little "Raw" button on the top right to switch to a display mode where you can simply save the file on your HDD.

 

Also, if you like to just pull the repo without forking it, you simply create a new folder somewhere, then navigate to it with your commandline and execute this commands:

git initgit remote add origin [email protected]:photonstorm/phaser.gitgit pull origin master

To pull the latest version from the github servers. (Hold tight, this will take a moment).

 

*edit: heh, bkurtz13 was faster

[Mike]

No one said anything about: "The easiest way to use GitHub on Windows."

 

http://windows.github.com/

 

I use it and i'm quite happy with it.

[Chris]

Honestly, their claim is a bit bold. I see no benefits over using the website + the cli git client.

[Julian]

If you're interested in an UI for Git you can also have a look at Atlassian SourceTree http://www.sourcetreeapp.com

[rich]

If you registered Phaser as a bower component you could easily install it (assuming you have bower install globally) by typing

$ bower install phaser

OR, if you reaaally wanted to, you could create a Yeoman generator and scaffold an entire Phaser project by simple typing

$ yo phaser

If you guys have an interest in this, I could send a PR to help out.

 

I would definitely be interested in offering these as additional methods to get the library, yes.

[gaelbeltran]

Thanks for all your help guys!

 

Yes Rich, that would be an awesome distribution platform!