I really like the project path structure from the "old" go workspaces. For example, the command go get github.com/golang/protobuf/ is cloning the package into $GOPATH/src/github.com/golang/protobuf.

I use this structure for every project I clone, so I had to navigate into the given base folder and create all underlying folders which was quite a pain. That's why I created this tiny tool which helps to keep the structure without the need for multiple commands.

Example: gcl https://github.com/<user>/<project> You can either set a basepath via the gcl environment variable or the curent working directory will be used.

gcl is creating a <basePath>/github.com/<user>/<project> folder structure were the project will be cloned into.

I also love to have subfolders for each language. That's why I implemented the -p <name> parameter which is creating a new subfolder.

Example: gcl -p rust https://github.com/<user>/<project> -> <basePath>/rust/github.com/<user>/<project>

• git (I could also use https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs which would resolve this)
• set gcl environment variable if you don't want to use the current working directory

• clone the repo
• cargo install gcl