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Git Grab
A small tool to clone git repositories to a standard location, organised
by domain name and path. It runs on BSD, Linux, macOS, Windows, and
more.
Git Grab clones a repo into `$GRAB_HOME`, organised by domain and path.
`GRAB_HOME` defaults to `~/src` if not set or supplied via the `--home`
argument. For example:
$ git grab github.com/wezm/git-grab
Cloning into '/home/wmoore/src/github.com/wezm/git-grab'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 30, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (30/30), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
remote: Total 30 (delta 9), reused 27 (delta 7), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (30/30), 12.50 KiB | 12.50 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (9/9), done.
Grabbed https://github.com/wezm/git-grab to /home/wmoore/src/github.com/wezm/git-grab
$ lsd --tree ~/src
/home/wmoore/src
└── github.com
└── wezm
└── git-grab
├── Cargo.lock
├── Cargo.toml
└── src
├── args.rs
├── grab.rs
└── main.rs
Install
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### Pre-compiled Binary
Pre-compiled binaries are available for a number of platforms.
* [FreeBSD 13+ amd64](https://releases.wezm.net/git-grab/3.0.0/git-grab-3.0.0-amd64-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz)
* [Linux x86\_64](https://releases.wezm.net/git-grab/3.0.0/git-grab-3.0.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz)
* [MacOS Universal](https://releases.wezm.net/git-grab/3.0.0/git-grab-3.0.0-universal-apple-darwin.tar.gz)
* [Windows x86\_64](https://releases.wezm.net/git-grab/3.0.0/git-grab-3.0.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip)
Example to download and extract a binary:
curl https://releases.wezm.net/git-grab/3.0.0/git-grab-3.0.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz | tar zxf -
### Package Manager
`git-grab` is packaged in these package managers:
* Arch Linux: `git-grab`
* Brew: `brew install git-grab`
* Chimera Linux: `git-grab`
Usage
-----
Once `git-grab` in installed you can use it via `git grab`. `git` automatically
finds binaries named `git-*`, this also means that if you have a shell alias
like `alias g=git`, `g grab` will also work.
```
USAGE:
git grab [OPTIONS] [URL]... [--] [GIT OPTIONS]
ARGS:
...
One or more git URLs to clone. Any URL accepted by `git` is valid.
In addition, URLs without a scheme such as
github.com/wezm/grab are also accepted.
OPTIONS:
-h, --help
Prints help information
-c, --clipboard
Paste a URL to clone from the clipboard.
--home [default: ~/src or $GRAB_HOME]
The directory to use as "grab home", where the URLs will be
cloned into. Overrides the GRAB_HOME environment variable if
set.
-n, --dry-run
Don't clone the repository but print what would be done.
-V, --version
Prints version information
GIT OPTIONS:
Arguments after `--` will be passed to the git clone invocation.
This can be used supply arguments like `--recurse-submodules`.
ENVIRONMENT
GRAB_HOME
See --home
```
### With GitHub CLI
1. Configure an alias in the GitHub CLI:
gh alias set --shell grab 'git grab "git@github.com:$1.git"'
2. You can now grab a GitHub repo. For example:
gh grab wezm/git-grab
Build from Source
-----------------
**Minimum Supported Rust Version:** 1.70.0
`git-grab` is implemented in Rust. See the Rust website for [instructions on
installing the toolchain][rustup].
**Compile-time Options (Cargo Features)**
`git-grab` supports the following compile-time options:
* `clipboard`: enable support for cloning the URL on the clipboard
* This feature is on by default
* On UNIX and UNIX-like systems such as BSD and Linux one of the following
tools must be installed:
* [wl-clipboard](https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard) (Wayland)
* [xclip](https://github.com/astrand/xclip) or
[xsel](https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/) (X11)
### From Git Checkout or Release Tarball
Build the binary with `cargo build --release --locked`. The binary will be in
`target/release/git-grab`.
### From crates.io
`cargo install git-grab`
Credits
-------
This tool is inspired by [grab by @jmhodges](https://github.com/jmhodges/grab).
A small comparison:
| Feature | Original | This Version |
|----------------------|----------------------------------------|------------------------|
| VCS Supported | Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and Bazaar | Git |
| Dependencies | None | git |
| Progress Information | No | Yes, provided by `git` |
`git-grab` incorporates clipboard code from [clipp] by [bendn] under the MIT licence.
Licence
-------
This project is dual licenced under either of:
- Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](https://github.com/wezm/git-grab/blob/master/LICENSE-APACHE))
- MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](https://github.com/wezm/git-grab/blob/master/LICENSE-MIT))
at your option.
[rustup]: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
[clipp]: https://github.com/bend-n/clipp
[bendn]: https://github.com/bend-n
