githyperlink

Get a link to the hosted html version of a git-tracked file or directory.

This is relevant only for git remotes that serve html, like github and gitlab.

Usage

$ gethyperlink [PATH]

(Note the spelling here: get hyperlink).

If PATH is not specified, a link for the current directory is given.

Example

$ cd my-pretty-repo/subdir

$ gethyperlink somefile.jl
https://github.com/yourname/my-pretty-repo/blob/main/subdir/somefile.jl

You might want to define an alias, for example, in ~/.bashrc:

alias gl="gethyperlink"  # Or maybe 'gurl' (get url) 💅

Direct usage in Python

from githyperlink import get_hyperlink

print(get_hyperlink(__file__))
# → https://gitlab.com/you/my_scripts/blob/main/this_script.py

The argument to get_hyperlink can be a string, as above, or a pathlib.Path.

Installation

pip install githyperlink

This will get you the

,

and makes the command-line tool gethyperlink globally available.

To upgrade an existing installation to the version above, use pip install -U githyperlink.

Requires Python ≥ 3.9.

Features

• git is called directly, in a subprocess: this is faster than the default usage of GitPython, and spares a dependency. (Currently, we only depend on click).

• Not many features.
  This makes the source code easier to grok, and easier to modify for your own purposes.