gitcp
Copy files from Git repository to local.
Install
We are planning to add some installers support in the future.
e.g.
- homebrew
- winget
- debian package
- etc.
For now, manually install prebuilt binary from GitHub Releases page:
or install from source via:
cargo install gitcp
Usage
$ gitcp --help
gitcp 0.3.1
Copy files from Git repository to local.
USAGE:
gitcp <source> [destination]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
ARGS:
<source> GitHub repository name (e.g. r7kamura/gitcp)
<destination> 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
Usecase
This tool can be used not only to simply copy files from any repository, but also as an installer to provide templates for custom GitHub actions.
This is an example to install github-label-sync-action into the repository:
gitcp r7kamura/github-label-sync-action-template
If you always prepare routine files every time you create a repository, I think you can make it easier with gitcp
by preparing that template.