A utility to quickly clone github repositories.

gitme

#!/usr/bin/env bash

BASE_DIR=~/git

set -e

echo "this tool will clone a Github repo into your ~/git folder"

if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]
then
	echo "give me a 'user/repo'! If you want to specify the clone directory do it after the user/repo!"
	exit 1
fi

# set custom dest dir
if [[ $# -eq 1 ]]
then
DEST=$BASE_DIR/$1
else
DEST=$2
fi

git clone [email protected]:$1 $DEST

Make this executable and put it somewhere in your $PATH.
Then you can clone stuff like this.

gitme crystal-lang/crystal
# clones into `~/git/crystal-lang/crystal`.

Or you can tell it to clone to a specific directory

gitme crystal-lang/crystal ~/test
# clones into `~/test`.