A Cargo subcommand to clone a repository from the crates.io index.
cargo install cargo-clone-crate
By default it will attempt to guess if the package uses git, Mercurial, or other version control systems.
cargo clone bitflags
If it can't determine which to use, you can force it manually:
cargo clone --method=fossil rs-graph graph.fossil
You can also download the crate file directly from crates.io:
cargo clone --method=crate bitflags
The crate method can also take a version to fetch a specific version:
cargo clone --version=1.0.1 bitflags
If passed a Cargo-style package spec with a version requirement, it will
always use the crate method to download directly from crates.io:
cargo clone bitflags:^1.0
The @ style syntax is also supported:
cargo clone regex@1.7.1
Extra arguments are passed to the VCS command:
cargo clone bitflags --depth=1 bf