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So I followed a link to the mahApps MahAppsMetroThemesSample on Git here
How in the world do you download the code??? I don't see a Download link or button.
THIS is why I've always found Git to be confusing
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Well that's just github being confusing, but I mean of course git has its moments too. That being said, on github you have to export the whole repo. So, if you go here[^] you'll see a green button on the right where you'll have the option to download the repo as a ZIP.
Jeremy Falcon
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Maximilien wrote: Go up one level.
How would anyone ever have known that?? The page I was on looked like a .SLN and a folder full of code. Looked right to me.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I would say experience.
I've had the same experience with github trying to download a subfolder of a project and I just looked around and went up to the project root to find the "clone" button.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I would say experience.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from lack of wisdom.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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And judgement comes with experience, and experience comes from having bad judgement...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Kevin Marois wrote: How would anyone ever have known that??
Even Microsoft doesn't know that. The instructions for cloning the DotNetFramework-4.7 example for Docker for Windows says "git clone..." with a URL to the sub-folder, not the top-level repo. 
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I think this is poor UI/UX by GitHub - not Git's fault, and definitely not your fault. The 'Clone or Download' button might be more useful if it were up at the top by the watch/star/fork buttons, since those apply to the entire repository just like clone/download does. And if someone might want to fork the repo while looking in a subdirectory, they might also want to clone or download it then too.
Some of GitHub's competitors do a better job here. In this repository on Gitlab, you can see that even in a deeply nested directory, there's still a direct link at the top right to easily download the code. BitBucket does it the same way for both Git and Mercurial repositories.
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This book on Japanese sword fighters is too long – would you like me to Samurais it for you?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Have you got enough haiku to boil it down to a haiku?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Have to ask Su, shi knows all about that
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Well, sashimi over there and ask her!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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what's the hari, kari for dinner was it?
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Sure, just get to the point.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Any way you slice it or dice it, it's cutting edge stuff. Although some would say they're on the fence.
/ravi
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Sounds like you have a good handle on this stuff, I may have to steel some of this knowledge, and forge my own opinions.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You're pretty sharp yourself!
/ravi
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Thanks Ravi, I attribute that to the glass of tang I drink on a daily basis.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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"Katana Hot Tin Roof" may be more to your liking.
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You sir, have just won teh internets!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Next you will be telling us that the Russians know the way of the samovar.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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