hub: git + hub = github

hub is a command line utility which improves your git experience.

The goal is threefold:

• Augment existing git subcommands (such as git clone) with additional, often GitHub-aware functionality.
• Clarify many of git's famous error messages.
• Add new and useful subcommands.

hub can be used in place of git or you can alias the git command in your shell to run hub - no existing functionality is removed. hub simply adds and improves.

Install

hub can be installed using rubygems:

$ gem install hub -s http://gemcutter.org/

Or installed from source:

$ git clone git://github.com/defunkt/hub.git
$ cd hub
$ rake install

Once you've installed hub, you can invoke it directly from the command line:

$ hub --version

To get the full experience, alias your git command to run hub by placing the following in your .bash_profile (or relevant startup script):

alias git=hub

Typing hub install <shell> will display install instructions for you shell.

COMMANDS

git clone

$ git clone schacon/ticgit
$ git clone -p schacon/ticgit

git remote add

$ git remote add rtomayko
$ git remote add -p pjhyett

git init

$ git init -g

PRIOR ART

These projects also aim to either improve git or make interacting with GitHub simpler:

• eg
• github-gem
• gh

Meta

• Code: git clone git://github.com/defunkt/mustache.git
• Home: http://github.com/defunkt/mustache
• Docs: http://defunkt.github.com/mustache
• Bugs: http://github.com/defunkt/mustache/issues
• List: http://groups.google.com/group/mustache-rb
• Test: http://runcoderun.com/defunkt/mustache
• Gems: http://gemcutter.org/gems/mustache
• Boss: Chris Wanstrath :: http://github.com/defunkt