dev

An opinionated command to clone and change directory locally. Inspired from the dev command used at Shopify.

Supports dev clone and dev cd.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/bibstha/dev
cd dev
go build
cp dev ~/bin # copy dev binary to $PATH

Add scripts/dev.fish to your fish config file.

# Path: ~/.config/fish/config.fish 
if test -f ~/path/to/dev/scripts/dev.fish
  source ~/path/to/dev/scripts/dev.fish
end

Note that it is lacking support for bash or zsh but that should be easy to add.

Usage

dev clone

Clones a repository from github.

The root folder is hardcoded as ~/src/github.com. All projects are cloned inside this folder in the ~/src/github.com/username/projectname format.

The following command will clone https://github.com/rails/rails to ~/src/github.com/rails/rails folder.

dev clone rails/rails

dev cd

Easily cd into the right directory inside ~/src/github.com/. It uses a fuzzy finder to find the best match for given name.

For example, given multiple folders below, it picks the right folder.

~ $ tree -L 2 ~/src/github.com
/home/bibek/src/github.com
├── bibstha
│   ├── dev
│   ├── dotfiles
│   ├── project1
│   ├── project2
│   └── project3
└── rails
    └── rails

~ $ dev cd proj1 # picks bibstha/project1
~/s/g/b/project1 $ pwd
/home/bibek/src/github.com/bibstha/project1

~/s/g/b/project1 $ dev cd rail
~/s/g/r/rails $ pwd
/home/bibek/src/github.com/rails/rails

As you can see, proj1 correctly points to project1 and rail points to rails/rails.