gh-tree-cli

A high-performance, lightweight C++ utility to fetch and display the directory tree of a GitHub repository without cloning it.

Features

• Single API call (recursive) for fast performance.
• Auto-detects repository default branch.
• Supports authenticated requests for higher API rate limits.
• Zero-dependency compilation (via system packages).

Installation

Requires CMake, a C++17 compiler, and libcurl.

Build (using Ninja)

1. mkdir build && cd build
2. cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
3. ninja

Usage

Basic usage:
./gh_tree.exe

Authenticated usage:
export GITHUB_TOKEN="your_token_here"
./gh_tree.exe

Dependencies

• libcurl
• nlohmann-json