git-go-get

This is a simple tool that allows you to run the git clone command, but creates a directory structure similiar to Go's default structure, where repos are namespaced by their git hosts/path.

For instance, running git-go-get against this repo would place it at:

./github.com/brettneese/git-go-get

Bonus: If you install this globally (npm install -g git-go-get) and add something like this in your .bashrc or .zshrc:

function git {
  if [[ "$1" == "clone" && "$@" != *"--help"* ]]; then
    shift 1
    git-go-get "$@" /Users/$USERNAME/Development/git
  else
    command git "$@"
  fi
}

you'll be able to run git clone and this tool will automagically place it in a well-known directory on your machine with a well-known structure that correspeond with the paths in git urls. It will also copy the path to the clipboard so you can easily cd into it.

For instance running, git clone https://github.com/brettneese/git-go-get.git wherever you are at on your system would place this project at /users/$USERNAME/Development/git/github.com/brettneese/git-go-get.

That means all your git clones will go to the same, well-known place on your machine, without changing any of your existing habits. Cool!

Extra Bonus

Install clipboard-cli globally (npm install -g clipboard-cli), and you can do something like this:

function git {
  if [[ "$1" == "clone" && "$@" != *"--help"* ]]; then
    shift 1
    git-go-get "$@" /Users/$USERNAME/Development/git
    cd `clipboard`
  else
    command git "$@"
  fi
}

And automagically cd into the newly cloned repo! Awesomesauce! It's also possible to do something similiar with your OS's CLI clipboard tooling, but this works across environments.

N.b: Only for Unix systems, requires git. However, it will work with WSL as of 1.2.0.

Changelog

• 1.0.1: initial release
• 1.1.1: automatically copy path to clipboard
• 1.2.0: Upgrade clipboardy for WSL support, support SSH URLs (thanks @kamori)