clone git repo in rust

To clone a Git repository in Rust, you can use the git2 crate, which provides bindings to the libgit2 library. Here is an example of how you can clone a repository:

First, add the git2 crate to your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
git2 = "0.13"
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Then, you can use the following code to clone a repository:

main.rs
use git2::Repository;

fn main() -> Result<(), git2::Error> {
    let url = "https://github.com/example/my-repo.git";
    let path = std::path::Path::new("/path/to/your/destination");

    let repo = Repository::clone(url, path)?;

    println!("Repository cloned successfully!");

    Ok(())
}
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Make sure to replace the url variable with the actual URL of the Git repository you want to clone, and the path variable with the destination path where you want to clone the repository.

Note that you will also need to have libgit2 installed on your system in order to use the git2 crate. Instructions on how to install libgit2 can be found in the git2 crate documentation.

Remember to handle any potential errors that may arise when cloning the repository, as shown in the example above.

This code will clone the Git repository to the specified destination path.