/ghq

Remote repository management made easy

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NAME

ghq - Manage remote repository clones

DESCRIPTION

'ghq' provides a way to organize remote repository clones, like go get does. When you clone a remote repository by ghq get, ghq makes a directory under a specific root directory (by default ~/ghq) using the remote repository URL’s host and path.

$ ghq get https://github.com/x-motemen/ghq
# Runs `git clone https://github.com/x-motemen/ghq ~/ghq/github.com/x-motemen/ghq`

You can also list local repositories (ghq list).

SYNOPSIS

ghq get [-u] [-p] [--shallow] [--vcs <vcs>] [--look] [--silent] [--branch] [--no-recursive] [--bare] <repository URL>|<host>/<user>/<project>|<user>/<project>|<project>
ghq list [-p] [-e] [<query>]
ghq create [--vcs <vcs>] <repository URL>|<host>/<user>/<project>|<user>/<project>|<project>
ghq rm [--dry-run] <repository URL>|<host>/<user>/<project>|<user>/<project>|<project>
ghq root [--all]

COMMANDS

get

Clone a remote repository under ghq root directory (see DIRECTORY STRUCTURES below). ghq clone is an alias for this command. If the repository is already cloned to local, nothing will happen unless '-u' ('--update') flag is supplied, in which case the local repository is updated ('git pull --ff-only' eg.). When you use '-p' option, the repository is cloned via SSH protocol.
If there are multiple ghq.root s, existing local clones are searched first. Then a new repository clone is created under the primary root if none is found.
With '--shallow' option, a "shallow clone" will be performed (for Git repositories only, 'git clone --depth 1 …​' eg.). Be careful that a shallow-cloned repository cannot be pushed to remote. Currently Git and Mercurial repositories are supported.
With '--branch' option, you can clone the repository with specified repository. This option is currently supported for Git, Mercurial, Subversion and git-svn.
The 'ghq' gets the git repository recursively by default.
We can prevent it with '--no-recursive' option. With '--bare' option, a "bare clone" will be performed (for Git repositories only, 'git clone --bare …​' eg.).

list

List locally cloned repositories. If a query argument is given, only repositories whose names contain that query text are listed. '-e' ('--exact') forces the match to be an exact one (i.e. the query equals to project, user/project or host/user/project) If '-p' ('--full-path') is given, the full paths to the repository root are printed instead of relative ones.

root

Prints repositories' root (i.e. ghq.root). Without '--all' option, the primary one is shown.

rm

Remove local repository. If '--dry-run' option is given, the repository is not actually removed but the path to it is printed.

create

Creates new repository.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration uses 'git-config' variables.

ghq.root

The path to directory under which cloned repositories are placed. See DIRECTORY STRUCTURES below. Defaults to ~/ghq.
This variable can have multiple values. If so, the last one becomes primary one i.e. new repository clones are always created under it. You may want to specify "$GOPATH/src" as a secondary root (environment variables should be expanded.)

ghq.<url>.vcs

ghq tries to detect the remote repository’s VCS backend for non-"github.com" repositories. With this option you can explicitly specify the VCS for the remote repository. The URL is matched against '<url>' using 'git config --get-urlmatch'.
Accepted values are "git", "github" (an alias for "git"), "subversion", "svn" (an alias for "subversion"), "git-svn", "mercurial", "hg" (an alias for "mercurial"), "darcs", "fossil", "bazaar", and "bzr" (an alias for "bazaar").
To get this configuration variable effective, you will need Git 1.8.5 or higher.

ghq.<url>.root

The "ghq" tries to detect the remote repository-specific root directory. With this option, you can specify a repository-specific root directory instead of the common ghq root directory.
The URL is matched against '<url>' using 'git config --get-urlmatch'.

Example configuration (.gitconfig):

[ghq "https://git.example.com/repos/"]
vcs = git
root = ~/myproj

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

GHQ_ROOT

If set to a path, this value is used as the only root directory regardless of other existing ghq.root settings.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURES

Local repositories are placed under 'ghq.root' with named github.com/user/repo.

~/ghq
|-- code.google.com/
|   `-- p/
|       `-- vim/
`-- github.com/
    |-- google/
    |   `-- go-github/
    |-- motemen/
    |   `-- ghq/
    `-- urfave/
        `-- cli/

INSTALLATION

macOS

brew install ghq

Void Linux

xbps-install -S ghq

GNU Guix

guix install ghq

Windows + scoop

scoop install ghq

go get

go install github.com/x-motemen/ghq@latest

conda

conda install -c conda-forge go-ghq
asdf plugin add ghq
asdf install ghq latest
mise install ghq
mise use ghq

build

git clone https://github.com/x-motemen/ghq .
make install

Built binaries are available from GitHub Releases. https://github.com/x-motemen/ghq/releases

HANDBOOK

You can buy "ghq-handbook" from Leanpub for more detailed usage.

The source Markdown files of this book are also available for free from the following repository.

Currently, only Japanese version available. Your translations are welcome!

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