shortcut to clone git repo to a `user/repo` path

gclone.sh

: <<COMMENT
# Clone the repository with the default repository name
gclone https://github.com/balancer-labs/balancer-v2-monorepo

# Clone the repository with a custom repository name
gclone https://github.com/balancer-labs/balancer-v2-monorepo my-custom-name

# Clone the repository without ".git" suffix
gclone https://github.com/balancer-labs/balancer-v2-monorepo.git my-custom-name

# Clone the repository using short form URL
gclone balancer-labs/balancer-v2-monorepo
COMMENT

# gclone https://github.com/balancer-labs/balancer-v2-monorepo
# gclone https://github.com/balancer-labs/balancer-v2-monorepo.git
# gclone https://github.com/balancer-labs/balancer-v2-monorepo.git dest
gclone() {
  # Make sure that a URL was passed as an argument
  if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Error: No URL specified"
    return 1
  fi

  # Prepend "https://github.com" to the URL if it is in the form "user/repo"
  url="$1"
  if echo "$url" | grep -Eq '^[^/]+/[^/]+$'; then
    url="https://github.com/$url"
  fi

  # Append ".git" to the URL if it doesn't have that suffix
  if ! echo "$url" | grep -Eq '\.git$'; then
    url="$url.git"
  fi

  # If a clone destination was not specified as the second argument, extract it from the URL
  if [ -z "$2" ]; then
    repo_name=$(echo "$1" | sed -E 's/.*\/([^/]+\/[^/]+).*/\1/')
  else
    repo_name=$2
  fi

  # remove .git from repo_name
  repo_name=$(echo "$repo_name" | sed -E 's/(.*)\.git/\1/')

  # Clone the repository
  git clone "$url" "$repo_name"
}