github-clone

#!/bin/sh
# Used for cloning a repository locally.
# Wrote this script because I couldnot maintain lots of cloned examples for spring related (spring guides, spring-hibernate, etc.) projects from github and it got tough to browse.
# 
# So this script clones given repo under my Workspace as $HOME/Workspace/USERNAME/REPO_NAME.
# Very helpful when you have handfull of repos.
#
# Takes either SSH or HTTPS URL as argument1 and workspace foldername under $HOME as argument2
#
# i.e github-clone https://github.com/indyaah/scripts New_Workspace
#

URL=$1    # Argument 1 assigned to URL
DIR="Workspace" # Defualt value for workspace

# Custom Directory
# If $2 is not null use that value for workspace path
if [ "$2" ]; then
    DIR="$2"
fi

# Simple switch case for checking URL type and then simple cut to get username and repo name.
case "$URL" in 
  *https://github.com*)
    CLONE_TO=$(echo $1 | cut -c20-);;
  *git@github.com*)
    CLONE_TO=$(echo $1 | cut -c16- | cut -d "." -f1);;
   **)
    echo "Non Github link. Cant clone.";;
esac 

# Old code
# if [[ "$URL" == "https" ]]; then
#    echo "LOLLLLL"
#    CLONE_TO=$(echo $1 | cut -c20-)
#  else
#    CLONE_TO=$(echo $1 | cut -c16- | cut -d "." -f1)
#   Old RegEx way, too complicated CLONE_TO=$(echo $1 | grep -Po '(?<=(com:)).*(?=.git)')    
#fi

# Make directory as a precaution as workspace dir may not exist, git clone does create repo directory if it doesnt exist.
mkdir -p $HOME/$DIR/$CLONE_TO
echo "Cloning into $HOME/$DIR/$CLONE_TO"
git clone $URL $HOME/$DIR/$CLONE_TO