Add protocol option for https clone
huygn opened this issue · 6 comments
By default gh clone via ssh, for my scenario where ssh is blocked by corporate firewall, an option for https clone would be a life saver.
Something like:
gh --protocol=https [user] [repo]
Would probably be better to set by an environment variable so you don't have to type it in all the time. I'd accept a PR for this.
Maybe using env variables to set defaults which can be overwritten by command arguments.
command line options wouldn't be that difficult, but we would need to create one common function for all shells otherwise we'd have massive code duplication.
👎 for flags. Adding a flag parser would really complicate the scripts
Yeah the flag parser code would probably be longer than the actual functionality part. However, I don't think that it would complicate it that much. But if you're not for it, then environment variables are the way to go ;)
I suppose I also don't see why you would want https sometimes and ssh other times. ssh is often better, but there are situations where networking doesn't allow it. In those cases you would always want https.
I've sort of come around here after discovering I can do this in my gitconfig:
[url "ssh://git@github.com/"]
insteadOf = https://github.com/
[url "ssh://git@github.com/"]
insteadOf = git://github.com/
Probably not worth doing this to break people's workflows, but you can definitely do the opposite in your gitconfig if you never need ssh support.