Refclone

refclone is a wrapper for git clone command that keeps cloned git repositories organized.

Installation

pip3 install --user git+https://alcm-b@bitbucket.org/alcm-b/refclone.git

Usage

refclone.py https://gitserver.example.com/user/project

The above will clone the repository into a default location, ~/ref and create subdirectories, so the full path will be ~/ref/gitserver.example.com/user/project

refclone.py --repohome=/home/username/ref https://gitserver.example.com/user/project

You may use other default directory by supplying --repohome argument. To keep the same repohome directory for all git projects you clone, set this pair of aliases in ~/.bashrc:

alias refclone='refclone --repohome=/home/username/projects'
alias cdref='cd /home/username/projects'

After that, you can start using refclone like this:

refclone https://gitserver.example.com/user/project
cdref
cd gitserver.example.com/user/project
# start exploring the code

Description

refclone ensures that all git repositories I clone are located in the same place, nicely organized by server url, user and project name. It also shaves off a couple of commands I have to run each time I want to take a look at the source code of one more open source project.

Effectively, this utility is a shortcut for these two UNIX shell commands:

mkdir -p "/<repohome>/<server-url>/<username>/<project-name>/"
git clone <git-url> /<repohome>/<server-url/<username>/<project-name>/

, where <repohome> is provided in command line option --repohome.