git2folder

git2folder is a Command-Line Interface to extract branches of a git repository into folder and vice versa.

Usage

git2folder is usable with the Command-Line Interface way

Installation

$ npm install git2folder -g           // For CLI use

Command-Line Interface

Launch the CLI by calling:

$ git2folder [options] <extract|update>

Options

The command line utility has 2 possibles arguments=. You can view help detailed by running git2folder -h.

Usage: git2folder [options]

Options:

  -h, --help           output usage information
  -V, --version        output the version number

Actions

git2folder provides 2 actions :

extract : to copy all branches of a repository on a targeted folder
update: to create one branch per directory on a targeted git repository

Branches develop and master are ignored, the git repository must have at least a master branch

WARNING : the extractFolder is cleaned when extract is called and branches are destroyed on update.

WARNING : the update command use the local folders in an alphabetical order.

each action prompts questions :

gitFolder : to indicate git repository folder (relative to current dir) extractFolder : to indicate the directory where branches will be extracted or where it should take folder (depending of the action)

Examples

Imagine you have a working directory trainings :

├── trainings
└── 
│   ├── angular-tps
│   └── typescript-tps

And you want to extract all the branches of typescript-tps, stay at the root of trainings, make a tmp directory, and launch git2folder:

mkdir typescript-tps-tmp
git2folder extract
> ./typescript-tps
> ./typescript-tps-tmp

Work on the updates you want, and after reload git2folder with update command

git2folder update
> ./typescript-tps
> ./typescript-tps-tmp

License

ISC License

groupe-sii/git2folder