✏️ Easily clone a gist to a regular git repository

git-init-gist

#!/bin/sh

set -eu

gi() {
    name="${1:-}"
    gist="${2:-}"

    if [ "$name" = "" ]; then
        echo "Missing gist name"
        exit 1
    fi

    if [ "$gist" = "" ]; then
        echo "Missing gist URL"
        exit 1
    fi

    mkdir "$name" && cd "$name"

    hash=$(basename "$gist")

    git init
    git remote add origin "git@gist.github.com:${hash}.git"
    git fetch

    remote_branch="$(basename "$(git branch --remotes)")"
    git checkout "$remote_branch"
}

gi "$@"