git-clone

A small CLI tool that clones Git repositories into a clean, consistent directory structure:

~/code/<host>/<org>/<repo>

No more mkdir -p before cloning. Just pass a URL in any format and the tool creates the right directories, clones the repo, and prints the resulting path.

Usage

git-clone <repository-url>

The tool accepts any common Git URL format:

# HTTPS
git-clone https://github.com/org/repo.git
git-clone https://github.com/org/repo

# SSH
git-clone git@github.com:org/repo.git

# Bare (scheme is inferred)
git-clone github.com/org/repo

On success, the full path to the cloned repository is printed to stdout:

/home/user/code/github.com/org/repo

This makes it easy to combine with cd:

cd $(git-clone github.com/org/repo)

Configuration

Variable	Default	Description
GIT_CLONE_ROOT	~/code	Base directory for the organized tree

Install

go install github.com/ljagiello/git-clone@latest

Or build from source:

git clone https://github.com/ljagiello/git-clone.git
cd git-clone
go build -o git-clone .

How it works

1. Parses the input URL (HTTPS, SSH user@host:path, ssh://, or bare host/path).
2. Extracts <host>/<org>/<repo> from the URL, normalizing the hostname to lowercase and stripping .git suffixes.
3. Joins the repo path with the base directory ($GIT_CLONE_ROOT or ~/code).
4. Creates parent directories and runs git clone.
5. On failure, cleans up partial clones that are not recoverable and removes empty parent directories.

License

Apache License 2.0