git-get

git-get

git-get is a helper that allows cloning relative URLs with a short hand

$ git get joneskoo/git-get

Regardless of working directory where git get is executed, this expands to:

$ git clone git@github.com:joneskoo/git-get ~/src/github.com/joneskoo/git-get

This allows easy cloning of repositories into an uniform directory structure.

Installing

$ go get -u github.com/joneskoo/git-get

Make sure git-get is in your PATH; by default go get installs to $HOME/bin. git will automatically understand git get after this, but git-get is also valid.

Configuration

You can override the defaults by setting environment variables:

Usage

$ git get joneskoo/git-get
$ git get git@github.com:joneskoo/git-get
$ git get https://github.com/joneskoo/git-get

These all clone to same directory.

Pro tip: combine git-get with CDPATH in your shell. If you set in your .zshrc or .bashrc:

CDPATH=$HOME/src:$HOME/src/github.com:$HOME/src/github.com/joneskoo:.

You can use any of these commands to cd into /home/joneskoo/src/github.com/joneskoo/git-get from anywhere!

$ cd git-get
$ cd joneskoo/git-get
$ cd github.com/joneskoo/git-get

But not only that, you can use cd to your other favorite projects as everything is cloned to the same directory structure. As you can also clone with absolute URLs, this works fine if you use this for work repositories but occasionally clone some open source project.

WARNING: this is highly addictive and you will not be able to work without this after trying it.