A simple command to open a GitHub URL in your browser that matches your shell's current branch and working directory. Supports Mac, Linux, Cygwin and Windows.
npm install ghwd --global
cd myapp
git checkout mybranch
cd some/dir
ghwd
# https://github.com/bozo/myapp/tree/mybranch/some/dir
ghwd foo.js
# https://github.com/bozo/myapp/tree/mybranch/some/dir/foo.js
A g alias is created automatically to save you three keystrokes:
g foo.js
Requires the bash shell to run. Supports Mac, Linux, Cygwin and Windows by searching for one of the following openers, so other OSs may be supported as well: xdg-open, open,cygstart,start.
If you are interested in further integration between your shell and Github, check out the hub project. It adds a git browse command which works much like this one, in addition to a number of other features.
FAQs
Open the GitHub URL that matches your shell's current branch and working directory. Works for BitBucket and GitLab too.
The npm package ghwd receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, ghwd popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ghwd demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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