ghfs
The GitHub Filesystem (GHFS) is a user space filesystem that overlays the
GitHub API. It allows you to access repositories and files using standard
Unix commands such as ls
and cat
.
Install
To use ghfs, you'll need to install Go. If you're running OS X then you'll also need to install MacFUSE. Then you can install ghfs by running:
$ go get github.com/benbjohnson/ghfs/...
This will install ghfs
into your $GOBIN
directory. Next you'll need to
create a directory and use ghfs
to mount GitHub:
$ mkdir ~/github
$ ghfs ~/github &
Now you can read data from the GitHub API via the ~/github
directory.
Usage
GHFS uses GitHub URL conventions for pathing. For example, to go to a user
you can cd
using their username:
$ cd ~/github/boltdb
To go to a repository, you can use the username and repository name:
$ cd ~/github/boltdb/bolt
Once you're in a repository, you can list files using ls
and you can print
out file contents using the cat
tool.
bolt $ cat LICENSE
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Ben Johnson
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
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