meatcar / git-boba

The best (git) clone, more skilled than all the rest.

git-boba

The best (git) clone, more skilled than all the rest.

Features

• Clone repos into a configurable project directory, i.e. {project_dir}/{host}/{user}/{repo}
• Accept any HTTP(S) or SSH repo URL, extract host, user, and repo.
• Use a preferred git scheme, configurable per host, i.e. SSH when given a HTTPS URL.
• Support host, user remapping, i.e. github.com => hub, gitlab.com => lab. This makes shortened paths in shells like fish still be useful, for example:
  • No host remapping:

    projects/github.com/user/repo => p/g/u/repo
    projects/gitlab.com/user/repo => p/g/u/repo
    

  • With host remapping:

    projects/hub/user/repo => p/h/u/repo
    projects/lab/user/repo => p/l/u/repo
    

• Optionally cd into the repo after clone.
• Optionally run commands in the repo after clone, i.e. tmux, nix develop, mr register

Inspiration

These projects do something similar, but they're not good enough for me.

Project	Compliments	Criticism
git-get	git-config support	Not flexible enough
myrepos	very flexible	Can't clone unknown repos
ghq	supports host dir map, cd via --look, ssh via -p	can't map ssh hosts, no commands after cd