This script is a command-line utility that uses fzf to quickly navigate to a Git repository.

repos.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Set the default directory to search
search_dir=~/git

# Check if a directory was specified as an argument
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
  # Use the specified directory as the search directory
  search_dir=$1
fi

# Check if fzf is installed
if ! [ -x "$(command -v fzf)" ]; then
  # Check if brew is available
  if [ -x "$(command -v brew)" ]; then
    # Install fzf using brew if it is not installed
    brew install fzf
  else
    # Print a message explaining how to install fzf manually
    echo "❌ fzf is not installed. To install it, please follow the instructions at https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#using-git"
    exit 1
  fi
fi
 
# Use the find command to search for directories that contain a .git subdirectory
# Use the -maxdepth 3 option to limit the search to only 3 folders deep
# Use sed to extract only the directory name from each line of the output
# Use fzf to let the user select a directory from the list
selected_dir=$(find $search_dir -type d -maxdepth 3 -name .git -prune | sed -E "s/.*\/(.*)\/.git/\1/" | fzf --no-clear --prompt="Select a git repository: ")

# Check if a directory was selected
if [ -z "$selected_dir" ]; then
  # Print an error message if no directory was selected
  echo "❌ No git repository was selected. Exiting script."
  exit 1
fi

# Change to the selected directory
cd $selected_dir

# Print a success message
echo "✅ Successfully changed to directory: $selected_dir"