Course git tool

Bash utility to fetch/pull/clone students git repository in a course. Used extensivly in my Advanced C++ Courses.

environment variables used

• $COURSE_GIT_URL course git base URL
• $COURSE_GIT_REPO name of repo

Sample commands

First time

mkdir cs101; cd cs101
./gitclass -r hw jane cindy tao karim

• Create folder for course cs101
• Clone repos for students: jane cindy tao karim.
• Repo name is hw
• full git URL is git@${COURSE_GIT_URL}:cs101.${STUDENT}/hw.git
• for jane it will be something like `git@$gitlab.cslab:cs101.jane/hw.git

Alternatively, if we have no common prefix for user names:

COURSE_GIT_URL=`github.com`  ./gitclass -k "" -r hw jane joe

• where -k "" is used to specify no class name prefix.

Pulling

Once we have cloned the repos, repeating the same command will do git pull.

./gitclass -r hw jane cindy tao karim

Advanced Options

See ./gitclass -h for more.