gitcp

Copy files from Git repository to local.

Usage

``` $ gitcp --help gitcp 0.1.0 Copy files from Git repository to local.

USAGE: gitcp [destination]

FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information

ARGS: GitHub repository name (e.g. r7kamura/gitcp) Path to destination directory [default: .] ```

Copy all files

Copy all files from https://github.com/owner/repo to current directory.

gitcp owner/repo

Copy all files into specific directory

gitcp owner/repo tmp/repo

Copy all files from specific ref

gitcp owner/repo@v1

Copy specific file

gitcp owner/repo/foo.txt

Copy specific files

You can specify globwalk powered glob patterns.

gitcp owner/repo/{foo,bar}.*

Configuration

.gitcpignore

If there is .gitcpignore in the copied repository side, it will be used to ignore files.

```

.gitcpignore

CHANGELOG.md README.md ```

Background

As a tool creator, this can be useful when you want to provide users with some initial template files.

For example, when providing a custom GitHub Action, it's more convenient to explain like this:

Please run the following command:

gitcp owner/my-custom-action-template

than to explain like this:

Please create a workflow with the following content:

```yaml

.github/workflows/my-custom-action.yml

... ```

and then put config file like this:

```yaml

my-custom-action-settings.yml

... ```

I had exactly that experience when I created github-label-sync-action, so I thought it would be nice to have such a tool, and that's I came to create this.