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gh-clone 
git clone a repo with only username/repo.
Install globally with npm:
npm i -g gh-clone
Usage
Let's say you want to clone micromatch:
$ clone jonschlinker/micromatch
flags
-r|--repo: the repository to clone-b|--brach: the branch to clone-d|--dest: the local destination
Example: branch
Flags can be used in any order. If you want the dev branch of micromatch (when one exists):
$ clone jonschlinker/micromatch -b dev
Example: destination
If you want to save to the foo directory
$ clone jonschlinker/micromatch -d foo
Example: branch and destination
If you want to save the dev branch to the foo directory
$ clone jonschlinker/micromatch -b dev -d foo
Run tests
Install dev dependencies:
npm i -d && npm test
Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue
Author
Jon Schlinkert
License
Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license
This file was generated by verb-cli on February 28, 2015.
FAQs
git clone a repo with only username/repo, or if it's an NPM package you can use just the name of the project.
The npm package gh-clone receives a total of 96 weekly downloads. As such, gh-clone popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that gh-clone demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 28 Feb 2015
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