gitdir

A cli tool to download a directory from a git repo.

• Works on Linux and macOS
• Supports built in git credential store

Installing and running gitdir

Installing gitdir require golang tool chain.

There are two ways to install gitdir.

1. Install with go tool chain
2. Build from source

Install with go tool chain

1. Install with go tool chain.

go install github.com/thilinajayanath/gitdir@latest

2. Run the tool with a config file. An example config is shown below.

<go-path>/bin/gitdir -config config.yaml

Build from source

1. Clone the repo and switch to the repo.

git clone https://github.com/thilinajayanath/gitdir.git
cd gitdir

2. Build the tool with go.

make build

3. Run the tool with a config file. An example config is shown below.

./bin/gitdir -config config.yaml

Config file

Configuration file is a yaml structure containing the following information.

• One or more git repo(s) from where the files are copied from under the repos key.
• Each git repo has the following configurations.
  • URL of the git repo (SSH or HTTPS).
  • One of the following authentication methods.
    • none - If no authentication is required to access the gir repo (For example, for public git repos).
    • ssh - For accessing a git repo using the ssh method. This require the ssh key path to be specified.
    • credential-store - For accessing a git repo using an access token. Credentials are retrieved from the default locations specified here
  • List of source directory of the repo, local destination path and the git revision.

An example configuration file is shown below.

Example Configuration File

repos:
  - url: git@github.com:example-user/example.git
    auth:
      type: ssh
      credentials:
        key: /home/example/.ssh/id_rsa
    directories:
      - source: /
        target: /tmp/example
        revision: aaaabbbbccccddddeeeeffffgggghhhhiiiikkkk
  - url: https://github.com/example-user/example.git
    auth:
      type: none
    directories:
      - source: /
        target: /tmp/example
        revision: aaaabbbbccccddddeeeeffffgggghhhhiiiikkkk
  - url: https://github.com/example-user/private-repo.git
    auth:
      type: credential-store
    directories:
      - source: /
        target: /tmp/example
        revision: aaaabbbbccccddddeeeeffffgggghhhhiiiikkkk
      - source: /test/data
        target: /tmp/data
        revision: aaaabbbbccccddddeeeeyyyygggghhhhiiiikkkk