GIT-GRAB(1)

📦 version 4.0.1, in arch rolling

✨ GIT-GRAB 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to git-grab(1) — a page from the General Commands Manual, and honestly? it's giving "clone git repos to a standard location" main character energy 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

git-grab — clone git repositories to a standard location 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

git-grab [-chnpV] URL ... [-- git arguments ...]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

ok so literally, the git-grab utility clones git repositories to a standard location, and it organises them by domain name and path 🗂️✨. You just pass one or more URL to clone, that's it, that's the whole vibe. And if you wanna hand extra arguments to git itself? Just drop them after -- and it slays 🫶

The following options are available:

  • -c, --clipboard — pastes a URL to clone from the clipboard 📋 (no cap, it just grabs it for you)
  • --home — the directory to use as "grab home", where the URLs will be cloned into 💒. This one overrides the GRAB_HOME environment variable if it's set, periodt.
  • -p, --copy-path — copies the local destination path to the clipboard after cloning 🎀. And heads up: if more than one URL is supplied, the path of the last one is the one that gets copied, iykyk.
  • -n, --dry-run — doesn't actually clone repositories, just prints what would be done 👀 (perfect for a vibe check before committing)
  • -h, --help — displays a help message and exits 🧚
  • -V, --version — displays version information and exits ⭐

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • GRAB_HOME — the base directory to clone into 💜. If the variable GRAB_HOME is not set, ~/src is used. That's the default, bestie.
  • GRAB_COPY_PATH — if it's set, copies the local destination path to the clipboard after cloning 🔥 (equivalent to [--copy-path])

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

The git-grab utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs 😭. So like, zero is the slay outcome.

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

git-clone(1) — go check it out, it's iconic ✨

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

ok story time 📖: the git-grab utility is inspired by grab by Jeff Hodges. This implementation was written from scratch by Wesley Moore 👑. Obsessed, honestly.

ngl bestie, that's the whole page — every flag, every env var, every exit code, all of it 💅

mwah 💖 stay cloned, stay organised, and remember: ~/src is home 🏡

— brought to you by the Debian crew, dated Jan 5, 2026, from the GIT-GRAB(1) manual page 🎀✨ see u in the group chat 🫶

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