gitlab get tar of a specific branch via command line

try this

curl http://$yourhost:$port/$yourgroup/$yourrepo/repository/archive.zip\?ref\=$yourbranch\&\private_token\=$yourtoken -o newpackage.zip

Since GitLab 6.2 and issue 5253, it should be:

GET /projects/:id/repository/archive

But that seems for internal use only, since you cannot know the id of a project as a user (only its name).

Don't forget, as shown in ability.rb, that downloading an archive is linked to a permission. Make sure you have that "download_code" permission set for your project.

Here, it must be a permission issue, because, for instance:

wget http://demo.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-recipes/repository/archive.zip

That works just fine, and get the content of that project without any issue.

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However, as the OP Chris Maes comments and mentions in issue 6645, as as illustrated by app/models/ability.rb:

 if project && project.public?

... that "dowload_code" feature is only for public projects.

For me the private_token and the sha or ref parameters does not worked together. So, I changed the way, and I tell my private token via a header parameter to the Gitlab API, like this:

wget http://{{your_host}}/api/v3/projects/{{project_id}}/repository/archive?sha={{commit_sha}} --header='PRIVATE-TOKEN: {{private_token}}'