glcone

Sick of having unorganised repositories? Tired of specifying the directory? Get gclone today!

Example usage

$ gclone https://github.com/scottgreenup/desktop.git
$ cd ~/code/github.com/scottgreenup/desktop
$ pwd
/home/scottgreenup/code/github.com/scottgreenup/desktop

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

You can use it with args:

$ gclone https://github.com/scottgreenup/desktop.git ./here -- --no-checkout
git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes.git here
...

Automatically change directory

You can also create a script so you can enter the directory immediately.

$ cat ~/bin/gclone 
#!/usr/bin/env bash

cloned_directory=$(~/go/bin/gclone $@ | jq -r .targetDirectory)
cd $cloned_directory

Ensure you have your $PATH setup to prioritise the bash script, then:

$ . gclone https://github.com/scottgreenup/desktop.git
$ pwd
/home/scottgreenup/code/github.com/scottgreenup/desktop

Configuration

You can configure gclone via a configuration file.

• $HOME/.config/gclone/config.json
• $HOME/.config/gclone/config.yaml
• /etc/gclone/config.json
• /etc/gclone/config.yaml

Configuration options

DefaultDirectory

Default value is ~/code

The default directory to clone into. Ensure it is created before using as glone will not create it for you.

Example configuration

{
  "DefaultDirectory": "~/dev/"
}