roboclone 0.3.1

A script for cloning FRC robot projects from Git and configuring them for Eclipse

A neat little script for cloning git repositories containing FRC robot projects and configuring them for use with Eclipse.

Install Instructions

Open a terminal and run:

pip install roboclone

If you want the very latest version pushed to git then run:

pip install git+https://github.com/simon-andrews/roboclone.git

Usage

Now that you have RoboClone installed, it’s time to use it! Open a terminal and type roboclone. Something like this should show up:

$ roboclone
usage: roboclone [-h] [--gitargs args] [--force [FORCE]]
                 remote_url [destination]
roboclone: error: too few arguments

Add the -h switch to show a help message:

$ roboclone -h
usage: roboclone [-h] [--gitargs args] [--force [FORCE]]
                 remote_url [destination]

positional arguments:
  remote_url   url of the remote git repository (https or ssh)
  destination  directory to clone repository to

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --gitargs args   extra arguments for git
  --force [FORCE]  write metadata files even if they already exist in the repo

Clone a repository:

$ roboclone https://github.com/Team4761/2015-Robot-Code.git
Cloning into '2015-Robot-Code'...
remote: Counting objects: 6211, done.
remote: Total 6211 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 6211
Receiving objects: 100% (6211/6211), 2.17 MiB | 650.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2998/2998), done.
Checking connectivity... done.