If you have multiple software repositories, how do you move between them?
Possibly you have all repositories checked out into the same parent directory?
Do you cd .. a lot?
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user@machine:~/code$ cd repo1 user@machine:~/code/repo1$ cd .. user@machine:~/code$ cd repo2 user@machine:~/code/repo2$ cd .. user@machine:~/code$ cd repo3 user@machine:~/code/repo3$ cd .. ... |
Save some time by making a new “go-to-repository-command”. Let’s call this command “r”. Mine looks like this:
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#!/usr/bin/env bash # ZSH Compatibility if [[ -n "${ZSH_VERSION}" ]]; then autoload -U +X compinit && compinit autoload -U +X bashcompinit && bashcompinit fi g_proj_dir=/Users/olof/code r() { cd $g_proj_dir/$1 } _r() { local cmd=$1 cur=$2 pre=$3 local _cur compreply _cur=$g_proj_dir/$cur compreply=( $( compgen -d "$_cur" ) ) COMPREPLY=( ${compreply[@]#$g_proj_dir/} ) if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[@]} -eq 1 ]]; then COMPREPLY[0]=${COMPREPLY[0]}/ fi } complete -F _r -o nospace r |
It’s basically a copy paste from this Stack Overflow thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38737675/different-directory-for-bash-completion
I followed these two Stack Overflow threads to add ZSH compatibility (used by some colleagues):
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3249432/can-a-bash-tab-completion-script-be-used-in-zsh
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9910966/how-to-get-shell-to-self-detect-using-zsh-or-bash
Simply typing “r” will take you to the parent directory.
Typing “r repo1” will take you directly to the repo1 child directory, regardless of where you are currently standing.
Tab completion always acts as if you were standing in the parent directory.
Now you may skip cd .. entirely!
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user@machine:/tmp/somedir$ r repo1 user@machine:~/code/repo1$ r repo2 user@machine:~/code/repo2$ r repo3 user@machine:~/code/repo3$ git status ... |
You may want to investigate which terminal commands you commonly use. Perhaps cd .. is there?
[…] Here’s a suggestion for what to make of “r” but you may also want to shorten the commands you type the most often. […]