`git get` - checkout code in opinionated location

[alexec]

Golang requires all source code checked out in ~/go/src.

For example, https://github.com/tj/git-extras would be in ~/go/src/github.com/tj/git-extras.

I'd like a command to get it:

git get https://github.com/tj/git-extras

[guenhter]

Wouldn't sound too complicated to do:

• the git-get script should require that the user defines an enviornment vairable like GIT_EXTRA_DEFAULT_CLONE_PATH
• if the path is not set -> error
• if the path is set, a the given path (https or git) must be a little bit parsed, directories must be created under GIT_EXTRA_DEFAULT_CLONE_PATH and then the clone can be done.

Would you mind creating a merge request for this?

[vanpipy]

Hi, i did not get the idea of the git-get. What is the difference from the git clone? If the git clone can make the thing done, the git-get should do something git clone cannot or do hardly.

[kang8]

@vanpipy git-get can be regarded as the alias of git clone

git get https://github.com/tj/git-extras

cd $GIT_EXTRA_DEFAULT_CLONE_PATH && git clone https://github.com/tj/git-extras

[vanpipy]

@vanpipy git-get can be regarded as the alias of git clone

git get https://github.com/tj/git-extras

cd $GIT_EXTRA_DEFAULT_CLONE_PATH && git clone https://github.com/tj/git-extras

All right, and I try to review the PR, found the features about the git-get,

1. Set a git config variable as the clone path
2. Clone the repo to the path

But, something missing I thought here,

3. Get the repo without the git config, set it as the PWD when it is empty.
4. As the alias of the git clone, did it need to support the args of the git clone?

[kang8]

As the alias of the git clone

It's just my understanding. 😉

Get the repo without the git config, set it as the PWD when it is empty.

According to the description of this PR, git-get does not want to instead of git clone or implement the functionality of git clone. Therefore, must to set clone-path in git-get to use it.

[vanpipy]

Got your idea.

The git-get is not the alias of the git-clone, maybe the alias of the go-get. And i think the go-get mode is not good part for the git, so git-extras should not take this. But from another side extras, the git-get for the extras of the git makes sence.

Thanks your explains and everyone's effort for this :D.