[git] How can I see the size of a GitHub repository before cloning it?

To do this with curl (sudo apt-get curl) and json pretty (sudo gem install jsonpretty json):

curl -u "YOURGITHUBUSERNAME" http://github.com/api/v2/json/repos/show/OWNER/REPOSITORY |
  jsonpretty

Replace YOURGITHUBUSERNAME with your GitHub username (go figure).

Replace OWNER with the repository owner's Git username. Replace REPOSITORY with the repository name.

Or as a nice Bash script (paste this in a file named gitrepo-info):

#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 3 ]
then
  echo "Usage: gitrepo-info <username> <owner> <repo>"
  exit 65
fi
curl -u "$1" http://github.com/api/v2/json/repos/show/$2/$3|jsonpretty

Use it like so:

gitrepo-info larowlan pisi reel

This will give me information on the pisi/reel repository on GitHub.

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