gh-source

This is a plugin manager for people who don't like plugin managers. It's a simple shell function that downloads and installs plugins from GitHub as part of the sourcing step. It's designed to be used with zsh, but it should work with any shell.

Installation

in the terminal either clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/yarden-zamir/gh-source.git

or use a package manager

brew install yarden-zamir/tap/gh-source

then in your .zshrc

source gh-source.zsh

(This is the last time you need to clone shell stuff manually)

Problem domains / needs

1. Fast
2. Simple
3. Configuring/installing plugins in one location
4. Updating plugins
5. Opinionated - because all of my plugins are hosted on github, I can rely on that to make things easier and faster
6. Customizable

Before / After

As someone who didn't like all the stuff that comes with all the popular pluigin managers and hated how most don't even ofer proper updating system. I usually did the following

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in the terminal

git clone https://github.com/hlissner/zsh-autopair.git

then in my .zshrc

source ~/github/zsh-autopair/autopair.zsh

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using gh-source, I don't need to run anything ahead of time, just add this line to my .zshrc

gh_source hlissner/zsh-autopair/autopair.zsh

and it will download and source the plugin for me.

This is useful for sharing dotfiles, because I don't need to share an instruction manual for what to clone before hand or a seperate script. Better yet it lets me update all my plugins easily with gh_source --update

Help

Usage: prog [options] [plugin] [install_command] [install_location]
Examples:
  gh-source owner/repo/script.zsh
  gh-source owner/repo 'source {}/script.zsh && echo potato'
  gh-source owner/repo 'source {}/script.zsh && echo potato' /home/user/special_location
  gh-source --update
Options:
  --help: print this help message
  --update: update all plugins
  --list: list all plugins
Arguments:
  plugin: the plugin to source. If no install_command is passed, it will assume the last segment is the file to source (default install command)
  install_command: the command to run to install the plugin (default: 'source {}/$(echo "$1" | cut -d'/' -f3-) where {} is replaced by install location. meaning that if your plugin is owner/repo/plug.zsh, it will run 'source $install_location/plug.zsh
  install_location: the location to install the plugin to (default: $GH_SOURCE_INSTALL_LOCATION/$(basename $install_source))

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