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NationWidePants
NationWidePants

Reputation: 447

How do you add gitconfig clone functionality to pull the project and wiki in gitlab?

I have documentation that requires updating in XXX project and, when cloned, I need to also clone the wiki so the documentation can be updated.

So I'm trying to add a clone alias to clone both the XXX and XXX.wiki projects, but that hasn't yielded positive results. Does anyone have a suggestion that might better solve my problem?

I've included this to show one of my many trials, but it in no way reflects the breadth of my attempts.

[alias]
    cl = !sh -c 'git clone [email protected]/$1 $(basename $1)' -

Upvotes: 1

Views: 153

Answers (2)

joanis
joanis

Reputation: 12221

This is quite difficult to do with an alias, because Git does strange things with parameters your provide to an alias, which I could not figure out.

However, you can also define a command by creating a script with the right name. git cl will invoke git-cl if it finds it on your path, and it's a lots easier to solve your problem in a bash script.

So, add a file called git-cl to your path, say, in ~/bin:

#!/bin/bash
git clone [email protected]/$1
git clone [email protected]/$1.wiki

Run chmod +x ~/bin/git-cl

And then this should work: git cl XXX will clone both XXX and XXX.wiki into your current folder. Adjust the exact commands run in git-cl to meet your needs if I didn't get them quite right.

Upvotes: 2

KamilCuk
KamilCuk

Reputation: 141000

but I'm not certain how to construct that

You can do a function, it's specially handled by git-alias code.

[alias]
    cl = "!f() { git clone this/\"$1\"; git clone that/\"$1\"; } f"

And you can create a file named git-cl with the content:

#!/bin/sh
git clone this/"$1"
git clone that/"$2"

and add this file executable permissions and add it to PATH. git will automatically pick it up when typing git cl.

Upvotes: 3

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