GitCliShell

Navigate the github site using the terminal emulator.

How to build

execute this command in your terminal:

mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true

after that the jar file should be in the target folder.

How to use it

launch the jar by doing:

java -jar gitCliShell-0.8.7.jar

GitCli has the following commands:

• clone: clones a git repository given a repository, a username and a branch
• info-branch: gets informations about all the possible branches in a git repository
• info-repository: gets informations of the folders inside a git repository
• info-user: gets informations about a specific user such as followers or personal repositories
• search-repository: searchs for a git repository given a specific term to search and a number of page (example 1=first page, 2=second page and so on...)
• search-user: search for a specific user
• navigate: checks a path in the repository
• check-file: shows the content of a file in the repository
• create-database: creates the local database
• insert-author: insert the name of the author
• assign-repository: assign a repository to an author
• search-autor: search for an author in the database
• search-repository-author: gets a list of repositories given an author's name

Below you can see some examples on how to use these commands.

clone

clone GitCli FrancescoDiSalesGithub /home/myuser/newgitcli test

If the branch argument is omitted then the project will be cloned from the master branch

info-branch

info-branch GitCli FrancescoDiSalesGithub 

info-repository

If you want to know the content of the files and folder in a specific branch do:

info-repository GitCliShell FrancescoDiSalesGithub test

Otherwise like the clone command omitt the branch argument

info-user

info-user FrancescoDiSalesGithub

search-repository

This command shows only the first page

search-repository postgresql 

This command shows the second page (actually each integer is a specific page you want to see)

search-repository postgresql 2

search-user

This command shows only the first page

search-user johndoe

This command shows the second page (actually each integer is a specific page you want to see)

search-user johndoe 2

navigate

Supposing you have already checked the main page of the repository with the info command and you want to check a folder

navigate FrancescoDiSalesGithub/GitCliShell/tree/master/.github

check-file

check-file /FrancescoDiSalesGithub/GitCliShell/blob/master/LICENSE
 

create-database

create-database mylocaldb /home/myusername/mygitdb/
 

insert-author

insert-author FrancescoDiSalesGithub /home/myusername/mygitdb/mylocaldb.db
 

search-author

search-author FrancescoDiSalesGithub /home/myusername/mygitdb/mylocaldb.db
 

assign-repository

assign-repository FrancescoDiSalesGithub GitCliShell https://github.com/FrancescoDiSalesGithub/GitCliShell  /home/myusername/mygitdb/mylocaldb.db
 

search-repository-author

search-repository-author FrancescoDiSalesGithub /home/myusername/mygitdb/mylocaldb.db