Get files from github without installing git using php script

Question

My client allocates a linux server without root access and git installed. I would like to pull my codes from github using a php script.

I googled this issue for last few hours. But no solution found.

Is there any way to do so?

Why not install git though? I presume cPanel provides a git way too. — mighty_dev
– mighty_dev, Commented Jan 22, 2021 at 7:38
Fetch https://github.com/VND/PKG/archive/master.zip with copy() and do some unzipping. — mario
– mario, Commented Jan 22, 2021 at 7:41
@s.k.paul mario suggested a good way. An alternative is to do git pull on your machine and use sftp to push it, however this would take longer time if project is huge. — mighty_dev
– mighty_dev, Commented Jan 22, 2021 at 7:44
GitHub provides the ability to download your repo as a zip file. So you could do that and then unzip it. Don't need PHP for that, standard command line tools can do it — ADyson
– ADyson, Commented Jan 22, 2021 at 8:36

user1994 · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-22 07:22:13Z

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So i guess you need to use github REST Api. Github REST

answered Jan 22, 2021 at 7:22

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I've had a look on the docs. But not found anything alternative to git pull