CLONEPOOL

Clonepool is a CLI utility to manage copies of git repositories.
Created to reduce compilation times on Scala projects.

Install

$ brew install clonepool

Usage

$ clonepool                    # List all clones
$ clonepool my-branch          # Checkout to my-branch of the branch of current directory
$ clonepool my-repo            # Clone my-repo and checkout to the default branch
$ clonepool my-repo my-branch  # Clone my-repo and checkout to my-branch

Assume that you are gonna create a pull-request to Play framework.
Run this command in your terminal.

$ clonepool playframework/playframework my-branch

This is almost equivalent to running following commands.

$ ghq get playframework/playframework
$ cp -r $(ghq root)/github.com/playframework/playframework ~/.clonepool/github.com/playframework/playframework/my-branch
$ echo ~/.clonepool/github.com/playframework/playframework/my-branch

Clonepool clones the repository using ghq.
So you can develop in any branches without affecting class caches!

If you are already in a Git repository, you can omit the repository name:

$ clonepool my-branch

Clonepool doesn't have a command to clean the clones. When you finished the branch, remove the clone by hand.

$ rm $(clonepool playframework/playframework my-branch)

Use With peco

Clonepool works well with peco!
Add these lines to your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc, etc).

function go_clone() {
    if [[ $1 == '' ]]; then
        cd $(clonepool | peco)
    else
        cd $(clonepool $1)
    fi
}

then go_clone works like magic!!

Author

Written by @amagitakayosi

License

MIT