git-r-done

premise

One day I stood a new server up, imported my SSH keys, and began setting up my environment. To my chagrin, I found my SSH keys weren't working with hub.

hub is a program by Github that wraps the classic git command with an extra layer of commands aimed at making CLI interactions with GitHub far more streamlined.

The specifics are, for me, all irrelevant except for one:

typing git clone username/repositoryname will auto-add the https://github.com and download the URL

and maybe:

something that ties my GitHub login to my SSH key

I don't use that second thing (voluntarily), it's just something that hub does, but for some reason it breaks every so often, and fails to authenticate my SSH key.

Usually I'm on a time crunch, so that's where git-r-done comes in.

Operation

This is an insanely simple script:


if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
  echo "usage: jrmgit username/repo-name"
  echo "example: jrmgit jeromescuggs/git-r-done"
else
  git clone https://github.com/$1 $2
fi

Assuming the standard stdout usage of $1 and $2 as stand-ins for prompt entries, this script simply takes the user input and sticks "git clone https://github.com/" in front of it.

Ideally this is used with the username/repositoryname combo to mimic the desired function that hub performs.

Installation

I usually have a directory in my $HOME folder where i keep executables that are more widget-y in nature but not installed via npm, pip, gem, etc.

To set up a local folder to execute scripts from, you can add it to your PATH by including something like this in your .bashrc or .zshrc:


export PATH="$PATH:/home/$USER/.my-scripts-bin/"

Feel free to name it whatever, but I like to always add bin in to make it obvious that executables are stored there.

Regardless of the above step, to use this script clone this repo locally, and then move either jrmgit or jrmgit.sh to your desired location. If it's in a bin, simply type

   jrmgit jeromescuggs/git-r-done gits/git-r-done

and the repository at https:///github.com/jeromescuggs/git-r-done will be downloaded to [current dir]/gits/git-r-done.

Oh, I forgot to mention explicitly that jrmgit also handles target directories, as per the above example where the cloned repo was placed in ./gits/git-r-done.

April 20, 2020