DEV Community: Cary Miller

Grab Your GitHub URLs Without Leaving The Command Line

Cary Miller — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:00:09 +0000

In keeping with my previous post about initializing, populating, and posting a repo to GitHub in just one step, I thought I'd share a quick one-liner bash alias I use for listing my GitHub urls on the command line.

alias ghrepos="curl -s -i -H 'Authorization: token $GHUB_TOKEN' \
    https://api.github.com/user/repos | grep -o 'https://github.com[^\"]*.git'"

To use the above alias, you'll just need to replace $GHUB_TOKEN with your own Personal Access Token from GitHub.

There are many benefits to having this function at your fingertips—you can use it to quickly:

Navigate to a repo's url.
Clone a repo to your local machine.
Or just peruse your remote repos in one simple list, like this:

$ ghrepos

https://github.com/cmilr/Atom-Prefs.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Bash-Prefs.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Blender-Playground-v1.1.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Blender-Prefs.git
https://github.com/cmilr/CMillerCo-HTML.git
https://github.com/cmilr/CMillerCo-Rails.git
https://github.com/cmilr/DeadSimple-Blender-3D-Cheat-Sheet.git
https://github.com/cmilr/DeadSimple-Pixel-Perfect-Camera.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Git-Beautify-For-MacOS-Terminal.git
https://github.com/cmilr/HTML-Essential-Training.git
https://github.com/cmilr/iOS-Postprandial-Timer.git
https://github.com/cmilr/iOS-Programming-Big-Nerd-Ranch.git
https://github.com/cmilr/iOS-SwiftCalc.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Learning-iOS-App-Dev-1.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Learning-iOS-App-Dev-2.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Learning-iOS-App-Dev-3.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Unity2D-Components.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Unity3D_ImporterDefaults.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Visual-Studio-For-Mac-Dark-Syntax-HoneyBees.git
https://github.com/cmilr/VS-Prefs.git
https://github.com/cmilr/Xcode-Prefs.git

I hope you find this as useful as I do.

Thanks for stopping by!

Initialize, Populate, and Post Your Git Repo to GitHub in a Single Step

Cary Miller — Tue, 23 May 2017 16:23:21 +0000

I don't know about you, but I'm a bit obsessed with saving time... in fact, I'm pretty sure I put more energy into saving time than I do working on my code (oh man, that's a discussion for another day.)

Anyway, I like having my code up on GitHub, but I get annoyed that I have to break away from the IDE or terminal to do it—navigating a browser can just feel so SLOOOOW.

So I threw together this simple function that makes it fast and easy to get a project up on GitHub, and I thought I'd share it. Once you have it set-up, it's literally a one-step deal.

Other than git, a GitHub account, and a bash terminal, the only real dependency here is hub, the excellent git command line tool.

I work on a Mac, so I installed hub via homebrew—$ brew install hub—but you can peruse their GitHub page for more installation options.

Once you've got hub installed and working, you should be able to drop something like the following code into your .bash_profile (making sure to replace the paths with ones relevant to your own development environment,) and use it to build a new repo in just one step.

The function below automatically creates a folder in my local Repos/ directory, initializes a repository inside of it, populates the repo with default README, LICENSE, and .gitignore files, and then goes on to create a remote GitHub repo, track it, and push a first commit. It finishes up by opening my browser to the GitHub repo so I can verify everything and add a description if I like... All from a single click. :)

function mkpub {
    printf "What would you like to name your repository? "
    read name
    #Replace with a local path to your repos
    cd '/CMiller/Dev/Repos/'
    mkdir $name
    cd $name
    git init
    #Replace with local paths to any default files you'd like to include
    #Note: the -f flag forces overwrite; use -i for interactivity if you prefer
    cp -f '/CMiller/Dropbox/Dev/GitInit/Public/README.md' .
    cp -f '/CMiller/Dropbox/Dev/GitInit/Public/LICENSE' .
    cp -f '/CMiller/Dropbox/Dev/GitInit/.gitignore' .
    hub create
    git add .
    git commit -m "First commit: add README, LICENSE, and .gitignore."
    git push -u origin master
    hub browse
}

Lastly, to create a function for making private repos instead of public ones, simply add a '-p' flag to the 'hub create' line above—hub create -p.

I hope you find this useful.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hi, I'm Cary Miller

Cary Miller — Mon, 22 May 2017 19:41:58 +0000

I wrote my first BASIC program on a Commodore CBM/PET computer 35 years ago, and I've been coding in an on-again/off-again fashion ever since.

These days I'm mostly programming native iOS apps in Swift and Xcode, but I also do a lot of fun/creative stuff in C# with the Unity game engine, and of course Blender (yay FOSS!)

You can find me on GitHub as cmilr, or over at my company website at cmillerco.com

Nice to meet you!