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I can do git clone like so ...

 git clone https://github.com/stackforge/puppet-heat.git

... with no problems. But I want to exclude all the git meta stuff that comes with the cloning, so I figured I would use git archive but I get this error:

$ git archive --remote=https://github.com/stackforge/puppet-heat.git 
fatal: Operation not supported by protocol.

Anyone know why or what I am doing wrong?

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I would simply run the git clone as you've described and then delete the .git directories that are dispersed throughout the cloned directory.

$  find puppet-heat/ -name '.git' -exec rm -fr {} +
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Thanks. I found the "Download Zip" link on their github and I just did a wget https://github.com/stackforge/puppet-heat/archive/stable/hav‌​ana.zip and unzipped it. – Red Cricket Jun 11 '14 at 0:58
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You can use github's svn support:

svn export https://github.com/user/project/trunk

More details here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9609835/git-export-from-github-remote-repository

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