Powershell script to download and unzip a github repository

install.ps1

function Download-File {
  param (
    [string]$Url,
    [string]$File
  )
  Write-Host "Downloading $Url to $File"
  [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
  Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $File
}

function Remove-Directory {
  param (
    [string]$Path
  )
  if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists($Path)) {
    Write-Host "Deleting $Path"
    [System.IO.Directory]::Delete($Path, $true)
  }
}

function Unzip-File {
  param(
    [string]$File,
    [string]$Destination = (Get-Location).Path
  )

  $FilePath = Resolve-Path $File
  $DestinationPath = $ExecutionContext.SessionState.Path.GetUnresolvedProviderPathFromPSPath($Destination)

  If ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -ge 3) {
    [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory("$FilePath", "$DestinationPath")
  }
  else {
    throw "Unzip-File is not supported on PowerShell versions less than 3.0"
  }
}

function Move-DirectoryContent {
  param (
    [string]$Source,
    [string]$Destination
  )

  $SourcePath = Resolve-Path $Source
  $DestinationPath = Resolve-Path $Destination

  Write-Output "Moving content of $SourcePath to $DestinationPath"
  Get-ChildItem -Path $SourcePath -Recurse | Move-Item -Destination $DestinationPath
}

$UserName = "tsugami"
$RepoName = "dotfiles"
$Branch = "master"

$DotfileTmpDir = $env:TEMP
$SourceFile = Join-Path $DotfileTmpDir "dotfiles.zip"
$DestPath = Join-Path $env:userprofile ".dotfiles"

Download-File "https://github.com/$UserName/$RepoName/archive/$Branch.zip" $SourceFile
Remove-Directory $DestPath
Unzip-File $SourceFile $DestPath

$ZipOutputDir = Join-Path $DestPath "$RepoName-$Branch"

Move-DirectoryContent $ZipOutputDir $DestPath
Remove-Directory $ZipOutputDir

this script was based on this file

the problem with this script is that it doesn't download git history together, because the repository is not downloaded as HTTP or SSH