I like to store repositories in a specific directory, where I create subdirectories in the format of the full repository address.

For example, the repository github.com/juev/gclone it will be cloned to the ~/src directory along the way:

~/src/github.com/juev/gclone 

In order not to manually create directories and then clone the repository, I created this small program that allows you to do this with one command.

GIT_PROJECT_DIR="~/src" gclone https://github.com/juev/gclone.git 

Just:

go install github.com/juev/gclone@latest

The location for repositories is determined using the environment variable GIT_PROJECT_DIR.

You can set it in the system. Or transfer it when the program starts. If the variable is not set, the current directory will be used as the main one.

At the output of the program, we will receive either an error in Stderr, or the resulting directory into which the repository was cloned.

We can use the output in a command like:

cd $(gclone $1)

Enjoy!