In a slightly similar fashion to Distribution Installer it is possible to download archives of GitHub & GitLab repositories. For this there is GitHubArchive & GitLabArchive. Both implement GitCloudDescriptor. This is then complimented with GitRepoArchiveDownloader. The latter does the actual downloading work. It exposes the root directory of the unpacked archive using the getArchiveRoot method. You can mix these classes in a similar fashion where Distribution Installer is used.

A primary use case might be the download of resources from a cloud Git provider. This includes templates for Reveal.js, styling for Asciidoctor-pdf, extensions for Antora and many more.