Git Made Magical - A simple and flexible gem for automating common git tasks.
"gitmagic" is a swiss army knife of git tools
gitmagic [-idDpusvh] [long-options]
- Initiate projects from your local folders
- Create new online presentations using Jekyll w/Gitpages
- Update projects easily
- Flexible configuration system with support for config files
- GitHub Personal Access Token support for improved security
- Added configuration file support (
.gitmagic.yml) - Added GitHub Personal Access Token authentication
- Fixed git clone command bug
- Improved code organization while maintaining backward compatibility
Gitmagic now supports configuration files. Create a .gitmagic.yml file in one of these locations:
~/.gitmagic.yml(recommended)~/.config/gitmagic/config.yml./.gitmagic.yml(current directory)
See .gitmagic.yml.example for a sample configuration.
You can also set a GitHub token via the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.
Simply clones a repo, just like 'git clone'..
Initialize a new github project. Requires a name for the repo as argument You also need to supply --desc (-d) and a description of the repo You may supply a dir path "--dir" (-D), or else the current dir is used EXAMPLE: gimagic -i "My new repo!" -d "Really cool stuff" -D ~/projects/124
Add description to a new repo Used in combination with --init or --slides
Specify the directory for a new initiated repo Used in combination with --init or --update If no directory is specified, the program will use the current directory
Make the Github repo private
Update a github project Takes the commit message as argument You may supply a dir path "--dir" (-D), or else the current dir is used EXAMPLE: gimagic -u "Bug fix" -D ~/projects/159
Create a presentation project with slides written in simple Markdown text. See Fredrik Eilertsen's neat work that makes it possible to create presentations using Jekyll (https://github.com/fredeil/gh-presentation) This option will use '$pres_templ' to find the cloned "gh-presentation" It will create the presentation under your '$repodir' You must supply a name for your repo/presentation as the argument EXAMPLE: gimagic -s "Presentation23"
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gem install gitmagicalCopyright 2018-2025, Geir Isene (https://isene.org) This program is released under the WTFPL license (Full license text here: http://www.wtfpl.net/about/)