cargo-clone can be used to fetch the source code of a Rust crate from a registry.
cargo clone [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <crate>... [-- <directory>]
cargo-clone is a Cargo subcommand.
cargo install cargo-clone
cargo clone [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <crate>... [-- <directory>]
To download cargo-clone's code you would use
cargo clone cargo-clone
The latest available version is downloaded by default. If specific versions are desired, semver specifiers can be appended to crate names.
cargo clone cargo-clone@1.0.0
Versions are matched exactly by default, but other kinds of matching are also allowed.
cargo clone cargo-clone@~1.0.0
Using the --git flag runs git clone on each git repository url extracted from crate's metadata.
These lines are roughly equivalent:
cargo clone --git cargo-clone
git clone https://github.com/janlikar/cargo-clone
The command fails if a crate does not have the repository field set to a valid git repository.
Crates are downloaded into $PWD/$CRATE_NAME by default.
The output dir can be specified as the last argument:
cargo clone cargo-clone -- foo # Downloads into $PWD/foo
If multiple packages are downloaded at the same time or if the directory contains a trailing slash, the packages will be downloaded into subdirectories of the path provided.
cargo clone cargo-clone -- pkgs/ # Creates pkgs/cargo-clone/
cargo clone cargo serde -- pkgs2/ # Creates pkgs2/cargo and pkgs2/serde
Contributions are welcome. Feel free to open a PR into develop branch.
When running locally, you can run using cargo run -- clone CRATE or cargo-clone clone CRATE.
By opening a PR you agree to license your code under Apache/MIT licenses.