"No files to download" on large repos
glzlaohuai opened this issue · comments
Download using this link: https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs/tree/master/MacOSX10.14.sdk
It prompts: No files to download
Yeah this is a limit unfortunately of the API, the repo is huge so the list is truncated:
In this specific case, the repo also contains submodules which are definitely not supported and are unlikely to ever be. You should probably just use git
Thanks for the clarification.
I think however we could show a better error message at least, like "The repo is too big, nothing found"
It's a shame that it's the large repos that are affected, because I'm not sure I'd use this feature otherwise. I'd probably just clone.
@mattalexx that's probably the best solution.
@fregante Maybe the website can provide commands to do a sparse checkout that is approximately equivalent to download the requested directory.