Git Extra Commands

An extra useful set of Git related commands. Requires that you have Git installed. Run git_extra to see the full list.

Command	Description
`browse`	Browse to the site hosting the `origin` for the current repo. Uses `git remotes -vv` to determine the correct site to open. Currently supports Git, GitLab, BitBucket or a self hosted Gitea site.

Installation

The current release is only tested on macOS.

Download and install with:

cargo install git_extra

You can configure the commands in your .gitconfig configuration by running git config --global --edit and adding:

[alias]
browse = !git_extra browse

This will allow you to type git browse to browse to the repository web page.

Add a fork command that will fork and add origin and upstream remotes
Add a set-config command that updates local config based on a cloud based config
Add a quickstart command that creates a new repo based on the URL of a repo and which optionally runs a post clone cofiguration script