"No files to download" on large repos about download-directory.github.io

[kidonng]

@mattalexx that's probably the best solution.
@fregante Maybe the website can provide commands to do a sparse checkout that is approximately equivalent to download the requested directory.

[fregante]

Yeah this is a limit unfortunately of the API, the repo is huge so the list is truncated:

https://github.com/fregante/list-github-dir-content/blob/f845e4e3fe5d6898cc359a21530e2f88f19c305c/index.js#L54

In this specific case, the repo also contains submodules which are definitely not supported and are unlikely to ever be. You should probably just use git

[glzlaohuai]

Thanks for the clarification.

[fregante]

I think however we could show a better error message at least, like "The repo is too big, nothing found"

[mattalxndr]

It's a shame that it's the large repos that are affected, because I'm not sure I'd use this feature otherwise. I'd probably just clone.