Clone a git repo in an organized, convenient fashion

git-open.py

#!/usr/bin/python
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division

import giturlparse
import os
import subprocess
import argparse
import sys

home = os.path.expanduser("~")

arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog=sys.argv[0],
                            description="Clone git repos sanely and organizedly.")
arg_parser.add_argument("url", type=str, help="URL to git repository")
arg_parser.add_argument("--workspace", type=str,
                        help="""Folder where all the repos go""",
                        default=os.path.join(home,"Workspace","git"))
args = arg_parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
url_info = giturlparse.parse(args.url)
location = os.path.abspath(
    os.path.join(
        args.workspace,
        url_info.host,
        url_info.owner,
        url_info.repo
    )
)



if not os.path.exists(location):
    os.makedirs(location)

subprocess.check_call(["git", "clone", args.url, location])

if os.environ.get('GIT_GUITOOL'):
    os.chdir(location)
    subprocess.check_call(["git", "cola"])