DEV Community

Open the GitHub project page of a repo from Terminal

Shayde Nofziger on April 18, 2017

I find myself frequently needing to go to the homepage of the projects I contribute to on GitHub. I have bookmarked the important ones, and a quick...
Read full post
Collapse
 
tyrel profile image
Tyrel Souza •

I use the ssh format for adding my remotes, this only seems to pick up http urls.

I hastily redid an else condition that will work with git@github.com: remotes as well.

function GitHub()
{
    if [ ! -d .git ] ;
        then echo "ERROR: This isnt a git directory" && return false;
    fi
    git_url=`git config --get remote.origin.url`
    if [[ $git_url == https://github* ]];
    then
        url=${git_url%.git}
    else
       if [[ $git_url == git@github.com* ]]
       then
            url="https://github.com/${${git_url:15}%.git}"
       else
           echo "ERROR: Remote origin is invalid" && return false;
       fi
    fi
    open $url
}
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
Collapse
 
frailwords profile image
Sriram Viswanathan •

Just a small & quick modification to add current branch & non-github domain -

alias github=GitHub

function GitHub()
{
    if [ ! -d .git ] ;
        then echo "ERROR: This isnt a git directory" && return false;
    fi

    git_url=`git config --get remote.origin.url`
    git_domain=`echo $git_url | awk -v FS="(@|:)" '{print $2}'`
    git_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null`

    if [[ $git_url == https://* ]];
    then
        url=${git_domain}/${git_url%.git}/tree/${git_branch}
    else
       if [[ $git_url == git@* ]]
       then
            url="https://${git_domain}/${${git_url#*:}%.git}/tree/${git_branch}"
            echo $url
       else
           echo "ERROR: Remote origin is invalid" && return false;
       fi
    fi
    open $url
}
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
Collapse
 
n1amr profile image
Amr Alaa • 
git config --global alias.go "!f() { git-browse $*; }; f"
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

.../bin/git-browse 

#!/bin/bash

action=''
remote_name=origin

while [ $# != 0 ]; do
    case $1 in
        -r)
        [[ $# < 2 ]] && echo "Error: No remote name" && exit 1
        remote_name="$2"
        shift
        ;;

        *)
        if [[ -n "$action" ]]; then
            echo "Only one action is required."
            exit 1
        fi
        action="$1"
        ;;
    esac
    shift
done

if ! git rev-parse 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "ERROR: This isnt a git directory"
    exit 1
fi

git_url="$(git config --get remote.${remote_name}.url)"
git_url=${git_url%.git}

git_protocol="$(echo "$git_url" | awk -v FS="(@|:)" '{print $1}')"
if [[ "$git_protocol" == 'http' ]] || [[ "$git_protocol" == 'https' ]]; then
    git_domain="$(echo "$git_url" | awk -F'/' '{print $3}')"
    git_url="$git_url"
elif [[ $git_protocol == 'git' ]]; then
    git_url="${git_url#*@}"
    git_domain="$(echo "$git_url" | awk -F':' '{print $1}')"
    git_url="https://${git_url/:/\/}"
elif [[ "$git_protocol" == 'github' ]] || [[ "$git_protocol" == 'gitlab' ]]; then
    git_domain="${git_protocol}.com"
    git_url="https://${git_protocol}.com/${git_url#*:}"
else
    echo "ERROR: Remote $remote_name is invalid"
    exit 1
fi
url="${git_url}"

git_branch="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null)" || git_branch=''

case "$action" in
    '') action='home' ;;
    '-') action='current' ;;
    b) action='branches' ;;
    i) action='issues' ;;
    r) action='releases' ;;
    s) action='settings' ;;
    t) action='tags' ;;
    w) action='wiki' ;;
esac

case "$action" in
    'home') url="$url" ;;
    'branches') url="$url/branches" ;;
    'issues') url="$url/issues" ;;
    'releases') url="$url/releases" ;;
    'tags') url="$url/tags" ;;
    'repo-settings') url="$url/settings/repository" ;;

    'current')
        if [[ -z "$git_branch" ]]; then
            echo "Error: No branch"
            exit 1
        fi
        url="$url/tree/${git_branch}"
    ;;

    'wiki')
        if [[ "$git_domain" == 'gitlab.com' ]]; then
            url="$url/wikis"
        else
            url="$url/wiki"
        fi
    ;;

    'settings')
        if [[ "$git_domain" == 'gitlab.com' ]]; then
            url="$url/edit"
        else
            url="$url/settings"
        fi
    ;;

    *)
        echo "ERROR: Unknown action $action"
        exit 1
    ;;
esac

echo "Opening $url"
sensible-browser "$url"
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
Collapse
 
memowe_88 profile image
Mirko Westermeier •

Nice!

Just for fun: do you have any idea how to add this as a hub command to git? ❤

Collapse
 
ikirker profile image
Ian Kirker •

Just put it in a script called git-hub and add that to a directory in your path.

Thread Thread
 
memowe_88 profile image
Mirko Westermeier •

Aye! Thanks!

Collapse
 
math2001 profile image
Mathieu PATUREL •

Personally, I prefer this command to be associated with the hub alias, so I can just run:

git hub
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

And since the folder name is really often the same as the repository name, here's my solution:

git config --global alias.hub '!f () { local REPO;local URL;[[ -f .githubrepo ]] && REPO="$(head -n 1 .githubrepo)" || REPO="${PWD##*/}";URL="https://github.com/<your username>/$REPO";if [[ "$1" == i ]];then URL="$URL/issues";elif [[ "$1" == s ]];then URL="$URL/settings";elif [[ "$1" == p ]];then URL="$URL/pulls";elif [[ "$1" == w ]];then URL="$URL/wiki";elif [[ "$1" == b ]];then URL="$URL/branches";elif [[ "$1" == r ]];then URL="$URL/releases";fi;echo "Opening $URL...";start "$URL";};f'
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Make sure you change <your username> to your username.

Now you can run

$ git hub -> opens the repo depending on the folder's name
$ git hub i -> opens issues/ 
$ git hub p -> opens pulls/
$ git hub s -> opens settings/
$ git hub w -> opens wiki/
$ git hub b -> opens branches/
$ git hub r -> opens releases/
$ git hub whatever -> opens whatever/
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

If the name of the folder doesn't correspond to the name of the repository, you can add a .githubrepo file and set its content to the name of it, and it'll use this instead.

Hopefully it'll save some people a bit of time

Collapse
 
hoelzro profile image
Rob Hoelz •

There's a feature in Git called insteadOf that allows you to make shorthand URLs (so you can say things like git clone me:my-project rather than git clone git@github.com:hoelzro/my-project) - git-config unfortunately doesn't handle insteadOf. If you want your function to work with these remote URLs, you can use git ls-remote --get-url origin instead.

You might also want to use the local bash builtin to introduce git_url and url as local variables to prevent your function from contaminating your bash session!

Collapse
 
bertocq profile image
BertoCQ •

Cool trick :). I have a bash alias go='git browse' that does the same using hub.github.com, but having the script on the dotfiles would be handy if I'm in a computer where its not available.

Collapse
 
jotarios profile image
Jorge Rios • • Edited

Hi guys, this my own version for ssh and https, in one line, also you can run it in a subdirectory:


bash
function GitHub()
{
    git_url=`git config --get remote.origin.url`
    url=`echo $git_url | sed -e "s/git@github.com:/https:\/\/github.com\//"`
    if [[ $url != https://github* ]] ;
        then echo "ERROR: Remote origin is invalid" && return false;
    fi
    # url=${git_url%.git}
    # Use "open $url" if you use MacOS
    # Use x-www-browser if you use GNU/Linux
    x-www-browser $url
}
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
Collapse
 
ewoks profile image
Beeblebrox •

any tip on using two or more remotes (different credentials) on the same machine.. Let's say I use GitHub, my home NAS git and company's git server on the same machine for different projects... How to switch between these fast?

tips needed :) thanks in advance

Collapse
 
aghost7 profile image
Jonathan Boudreau •

You could just change your ssh config to use different identities based on the IP or something. If you need to use a different email, etc for certain projects you can use git config user.email 'you@email.com' (without --global) to change it from the default global configuration.

Collapse
 
lordmathis profile image
Matúš Námešný •

on Linux change open to xdg-open

Collapse
 
jotarios profile image
Jorge Rios • • Edited

or use x-www-browser in Ubuntu

Collapse
 
pschfr profile image
paul schaefer •

or use sensible-browser

Collapse
 
nateowami profile image
Nathaniel Paulus •

I've been using git-open and it has worked perfectly for me (even takes you to the current branch). Currently aliased to gh, though it also works with GitLab and Bitbucket.

npm install --global git-open

Bash scripts are great. Just wanted to point out there's a solid implementation of this though for those who want it.

Collapse
 
aghost7 profile image
Jonathan Boudreau •

I personally just use fugitive from VIM. If I ever need to see something from Github I just run :Gbrowse or if I want to just get the link to share it with someone I run :Gbrowse!.

Collapse
 
lfkwtz profile image
Michael Lefkowitz •

Thanks for this. If you have GitHub Desktop installed - you may need to use a different alias.