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== NAME

ghq - Manage remote repository clones

== DESCRIPTION

'ghq' provides a way to organize remote repository clones, like +go get+ does. When you clone a remote repository by +ghq get+, ghq makes a directory under a specific root directory (by default +~/ghq+) using the remote repository URL's host and path.

$ ghq get https://github.com/x-motemen/ghq
# Runs `git clone https://github.com/x-motemen/ghq ~/ghq/github.com/x-motemen/ghq`

You can also list local repositories (+ghq list+).

== SYNOPSIS

[verse] ghq get [-u] [-p] [--shallow] [--vcs ] [--look] [--silent] [--branch] [--no-recursive] [--bare] [--partial blobless|treeless] |//|/| ghq list [-p] [-e] [] ghq create [--vcs ] |//|/| ghq rm [--dry-run] |//|/| ghq migrate [-y] [--dry-run] ghq root [--all]

== COMMANDS

get:: Clone a remote repository under ghq root directory (see <<directory-structures,DIRECTORY STRUCTURES>> below). ghq clone is an alias for this command. If the repository is already cloned to local, nothing will happen unless '-u' ('--update') flag is supplied, in which case the local repository is updated ('git pull --ff-only' eg.). When you use '-p' option, the repository is cloned via SSH protocol. + If there are multiple +ghq.root+ s, existing local clones are searched first. Then a new repository clone is created under the primary root if none is found. + With '--shallow' option, a "shallow clone" will be performed (for Git repositories only, 'git clone --depth 1 ...' eg.). Be careful that a shallow-cloned repository cannot be pushed to remote. Currently Git and Mercurial repositories are supported. + With '--branch' option, you can clone the repository with specified branch. This option is currently supported for Git, Mercurial, Subversion and git-svn. + The 'ghq' gets the git repository recursively by default. + We can prevent it with '--no-recursive' option. With '--bare' option, a "bare clone" will be performed (for Git repositories only, 'git clone --bare ...' eg.). + With '--partial' option, a "partial clone" will be performed (for Git repositories only, in 'blobless' mode, 'git clone --filter=blob:none ...', in 'treeless' mode, 'git clone --filter=tree:0 ...' eg.).

list:: List locally cloned repositories. If a query argument is given, only repositories whose names contain that query text are listed. '-e' ('--exact') forces the match to be an exact one (i.e. the query equals to project, user/project or host/user/project) If '-p' ('--full-path') is given, the full paths to the repository root are printed instead of relative ones.

root:: Prints repositories' root (i.e. ghq.root). Without '--all' option, the primary one is shown.

rm:: Remove local repository. If '--dry-run' option is given, the repository is not actually removed but the path to it is printed.

create:: Creates new repository.

migrate:: Migrate an existing repository directory to the ghq-managed directory structure. The command detects the VCS backend, retrieves the remote URL, and moves the repository to the appropriate location under ghq root.

== CONFIGURATION

Configuration uses 'git-config' variables.

ghq.root:: The path to directory under which cloned repositories are placed. See <<directory-structures,DIRECTORY STRUCTURES>> below. Defaults to +~/ghq+. + This variable can have multiple values. If so, the last one becomes primary one i.e. new repository clones are always created under it. You may want to specify "$GOPATH/src" as a secondary root (environment variables should be expanded.)

ghq.user:: In ghq, when specifying only the repository name without slashes as in ghq get {{Project}}, ghq attempts to auto-complete the repository owner. By default, the owner used is the value of the environment variable USER (or USERNAME on Windows). Setting this option allows you to explicitly specify the owner.

ghq.completeUser:: Rather than always using your own username for owner completion, you may want to complete the owner with the same name as the repository. For example, fetch ruby as github.com/ruby/ruby, vim as github.com/vim/vim, and peco as github.com/peco/peco. If you prefer this behavior, set this option to false to switch the owner completion method.

ghq.defaultHost:: The default host used when the repository specification omits the host. For example, ghq get owner/project normally resolves to github.com/owner/project. If this option is set, the specified host will be used instead.

ghq..vcs:: ghq tries to detect the remote repository's VCS backend for non-"github.com" repositories. With this option you can explicitly specify the VCS for the remote repository. The URL is matched against '' using 'git config --get-urlmatch'. + Accepted values are "git", "github" (an alias for "git"), "subversion", "svn" (an alias for "subversion"), "git-svn", "mercurial", "hg" (an alias for "mercurial"), "darcs", "fossil", "bazaar", and "bzr" (an alias for "bazaar"). + To get this configuration variable effective, you will need Git 1.8.5 or higher.

ghq..root:: The "ghq" tries to detect the remote repository-specific root directory. With this option, you can specify a repository-specific root directory instead of the common ghq root directory. + The URL is matched against '' using 'git config --get-urlmatch'.

=== Example configuration (.gitconfig):

.... [ghq "https://git.example.com/repos/"] vcs = git root = ~/myproj ....

== ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

GHQ_ROOT:: If set to a path, this value is used as the only root directory regardless of other existing ghq.root settings.

== [[directory-structures]]DIRECTORY STRUCTURES

Local repositories are placed under 'ghq.root' with named github.com/user/repo.

.... ~/ghq |-- code.google.com/ | -- p/ | -- vim/ -- github.com/ |-- google/ | -- go-github/ |-- motemen/ | -- ghq/ -- urfave/ `-- cli/ ....

== [[installing]]INSTALLATION

=== macOS

brew install ghq

=== Void Linux

xbps-install -S ghq

=== GNU Guix

guix install ghq

=== Windows + scoop

scoop install ghq

=== go get

go install github.com/x-motemen/ghq@latest

=== conda

conda install -c conda-forge go-ghq

=== https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf[asdf-vm]

asdf plugin add ghq asdf install ghq latest

=== https://github.com/jdx/mise[mise-en-place]

mise install ghq mise use ghq

=== https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs[nixpkgs]

nix run nixpkgs#ghq # run ghq once nix profile install nixpkgs#ghq # install ghq to your profile

=== build

git clone https://github.com/x-motemen/ghq . make install

Built binaries are available from GitHub Releases. https://github.com/x-motemen/ghq/releases

== HANDBOOK

You can buy "ghq-handbook" from Leanpub for more detailed usage.

https://leanpub.com/ghq-handbook

The source Markdown files of this book are also available for free from the following repository.

https://github.com/Songmu/ghq-handbook

Currently, only Japanese version available. Your translations are welcome!

== AUTHOR