How to download .zip from GitHub for a particular commit sha?
git, github
Solution
You can put the sha that you want in the download url:
`https://github.com/{username}/{projectname}/archive/{sha}.zip`
As a general rule, if you have a url that works, you can replace "master" with the specific sha you want.
On unix:
`wget https://github.com/{username}/{projectname}/archive/{sha}.zip`
Keep in mind that if this is a private repo then wget will not work unless you pass an OAuth token as well.
Here's more info on that:
Having trouble downloading Git archive tarballs from Private Repo
Problem
I want to download a .zip with the source of a library hosted on github, but I don't want the master, because every time I download I could be downloading a different version. This particular library does not have tags, so I can't use that. So how do I download the source.zip for a specific commit sha?