Fuzzy Find a Github Repository - Part Deux
The repo finder worked. It just wasn't fast enough. A disk cache, named pipes, and a non-adjacent deduplication filter to keep FZF feeling instant even with large repo lists.
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The repo finder worked. It just wasn't fast enough. A disk cache, named pipes, and a non-adjacent deduplication filter to keep FZF feeling instant even with large repo lists.
FZF is a tool that useful and easy to weave in to your needs. Shell history, files, git stash, branch checkout, repo clone, Docker entry — all faster with fzf in the mix.
Popping open a browser to find a repo breaks the command-line flow. A Go + FZF tool that fuzzy-searches and clones private GitHub repos — built up through three API iterations.