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pensatoio
Does this provide any kind of search mechanism? If it did, I would probably use this every day for viewing the source of 3rd party libraries.
m-chrzan
I believe the point of these tools is to be UNIXy, doing one thing well, and delegating the rest to other tools you already use. The script just downloads source code and drops you into an editor. Presumably, if you're a developer, you already have your editor set up for handling source code directories.
unrahul
Yup that is the intent, i designed it keeping in mind, I download very many repos and open it on vim, search is then offloaded to your tool of choice.

Future improvements I am looking at is to add a search for trending remote repos and some caching mechanism

m-chrzan
Looks like github1s really kicked off everyone making these git previewers.

Thread about git-peek (which the author here cites as inspiration) from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26108039

And the top commenter there created a cute bash 10-liner that basically implements the same functionality: https://git.sr.ht/~alexdavid/dotfiles/tree/master/bin/git-pe...

drzel
Guilty as charged: https://github.com/drzel/vim-repo-edit

Above only works on vim. But has the advantage of working within vim, so no need to open a new instance, and with no external dependencies beyond git.

oarsinsync
All three spin-offs (git-peek, git-peak, vim-repo-edit) work with any git repo, maintaining the decentralised nature of git

This latest one (repo-peek) explicitly only works with github and gitlab

andrewzah
What's the benefit here over starting a tmux session and cloning the repo in /tmp?

Knowing me, I'd close out and then realize I needed to search something else, etc.

unrahul
for the core functionality, the tool pretty much does that, although I am thinking of adding trending repos and things as such.. and any other features that other folks have in mind, keeping the core utility of the tool as opening a repo in your editor
unrahul
Also, i am looking at ways to make pulling the content the fastest way possible using cdn cached files where possible and things like that..
kortex
Well for one, giant repos from folks who don't understand why you shouldn't commit and push your 1 GB pytorch model.

Yay working with academic researchers.

[dead] razboy
Searching is needed.