A better way to do git clone
bash function to do this (works in zsh also):
function lazyclone {
url=$1;
reponame=$(echo $url | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sed -e 's/.git$//');
git clone $url $reponame;
cd $reponame;
}
The awk
command prints the part after the last /
(e.g from http://example.com/myrepo.git
to myrepo.git
). The sed
command removes the trailing .git
Usage:
$ pwd
~/
$ lazyclone https://github.com/dbr/tvdb_api.git
tvdb_api
Cloning into 'tvdb_api'...
remote: Counting objects: 1477, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (534/534), done.
remote: Total 1477 (delta 952), reused 1462 (delta 940)
Receiving objects: 100% (1477/1477), 268.48 KiB | 202 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (952/952), done.
$ pwd
~/tvdb_api
With git clone, you can specify the folder to clone to, instead of allowing it to be named automatically.
dir=myclone
git clone git://somerepo "$dir"
cd "$dir"
open "$dir"