Description of the feature request:

http_archive repositiory rule has strip_components integer attribute that removes the number of path components when extracting the archive.

Also, the repository_ctx.extract and repository.download_and_extract.

The naming is similar to tar --strip-components=NUMBER.

Which category does this issue belong to?

Rules API

What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

Archives often have a containing directories.

• Sometimes, this is long or not easily memorable -- a version number, or a commit hash
• Sometimes, this is not readily known. E.g. npm packages usually use a package/ prefix, but not always.

Usually, users don't actually care what the leading component is, they just want to remove it.

Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

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What is the output of bazel info release?

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If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.

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What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD ?

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

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Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

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