gh: a tiny tool to manage GitHub repositories in your GOPATH

As a Golang developer I have to clone a lot of packages/tools/etc into $GOPATH/src/github.com. Sometimes I do go get, sometimes it’s necessary to do a combination of mkdir + git clone. So to save my time I wrote a tiny function gh, that actually is the same as cd thatbut also can close repo if it doesn’t exist.

Here it is, just add it to your ~/.bashrc:

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gh() {
  if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
    echo "USAGE: gh [user] [repo]"
    return
  fi

  GOPATH=${GOPATH:-$HOME/go}
  user_path=$GOPATH/src/github.com/$1
  local_path=$user_path/$2

  if [[ ! -d $local_path ]]; then
    git clone git@github.com:$1/$2.git $local_path
  fi

  if [[ -d $local_path ]]; then
    cd $local_path
  fi
}

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