counsel-repo

Jump to repository using ivy.

Installation

Make sure counsel-repo.el is in your load-path and then:

(require 'counsel-repo)

Additionally ensure counsel-repo is installed onto your $PATH:

$ go get github.com/keegancsmith/counsel-repo

Configuration

By default counsel-repo will search ~/src (or $SRCPATHS if set) and will open results in dired. An example configuration which opens results in magit and searches both ~/src and ~/go/src:

(setq
 counsel-repo-srcpaths '("~/go/src" "~/src")
 counsel-repo-action #'magit-status)

How it works

counsel-repo.go recursively searches for all paths containing .git/HEAD, returning the paths sorted by the HEAD file mtime. mtime of HEAD is used since it is a good indicator for how recently the repository was used / updated.

The finder is written in Go for performance reasons. For example an equivalent shell version on my laptop takes 1.29s vs 0.08s of counsel-repo:

$ /usr/bin/time find ~/go/src ~/src -type d -exec /bin/test -d '{}/.git' \; -print -prune > /dev/null
        1.29 real         0.46 user         0.64 sys
$ /usr/bin/time counsel-repo ~/go/src ~/src > /dev/null
        0.08 real         0.01 user         0.05 sys