gh

gh allows you to very quickly navigate between GitHub project cloned on your local box. It will cd into project directories quickly and clone repos that do not exist.

There is a lot of mental overhead trying to manage a custom ~/src directory with your projects. I tried managing by work/personal, programming language, even tried a different directory for each month. I found by simply making your projects path reflect GitHub, it was much easier to remember where things were.

Here is a demo of me moving around various projects

Usage

Clone and/or go to ~/src/github.com/githubuser/githubrepo.

gh githubuser githubrepo

It'll either just be a cd or it will clone [email protected]:githubuser/githubrepo.git

Note that tab completion is available for project and usernames.

Changing the base directory

gh will clone or cd into $GH_BASE_DIR/github.com/user/repo. By default $GH_BASE_DIR points to $HOME/src. By changing the $GH_BASE_DIR variable in your shell's config file, you can control where gh will clone/cd into.

Note: Already cloned repos will not be transferred to the new location, they will be cloned again.

Installation

TBD