Since checking out some repositories takes longer, we download some of the release archives from GitHub. In our Dockerfile, we use the following for this purpose:

wget -nv -O- https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/releases/download/v${GDAL_VERSION}/gdal-${GDAL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1

For our Windows machine, which is not currently based on Docker, I would like to do something equivalent.

httpRequest outputFile: 'gdal.tar.gz', url: "https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/releases/download/v${params.version}/gdal-${params.version}.tar.gz"
untar file: 'gdal.tar.gz'

But this contains an unneeded sub directory (e.g., "gdal-3.11.3"). So an option to strip an directory would be nice.