Git peek, Fastest Way to Explore Github Repositories in your Local Editor

Git peek is a very useful tool if you want to browse or search other people’s code with your own code editor. It’s even faster than clone, it will let you open a remote git repository in your local text editor. It stores the repository in a temporary directory and deletes it when you close the editor, as simple as that ! Something you definitely need to add to your development tools !

Using Git peek

Usually you have to clone a repository, then add it to your favorite editor, then once you finish you have to delete, or sometimes you keep it until you notice that your disk is getting fat. The tool is simply written in Javascript with some TypeScript and C#, to install it simply use homebrew :

$ brew install jarred-sumner/git-peek/git-peek

Windows users, or linux install from npm using :

$ npm install -g @jarred/git-peek

Then you can use it with :

$ git-peek react
$ git-peek https://github.com/code16/sharp
$ git peek https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/20790

Running git-peek without arguments will let you search for repositories and show the trending repositories :

$ git-peek 
Search Github repositories:
>  
❯ openai/DALL-E            | PyTorch package for the discrete VAE used for DA
  nuxt/vite                | ⚡  Vite Experience with Nuxt 2 🧪
  tostercx/GTAO_Booster_Po | 
  neilsardesai/Mouse-Finde | 🖱👀 An NSDockTile experiment
  exebook/generic-print    | Convenient generic print() for C
  jevakallio/git-notify    | 🙉 📣 Communicate important updates to your team
  huoji120/DuckMemoryScan  | 检测绝大部分所谓的内存免杀马
  Jarred-Sumner/git-peek   | git repo to local editor instantly
  waylybaye/Swapman        | swapfile monitor for macOS Big Sur

You can also specify which editor to use with the directive -e which take the values: auto, code, subl, nvim, vim, vi, code-insiders. By default, it will search $EDITOR. If not found, it will try code, then subl, then vim. Finally if you need any help, use the directive git-peek -h !

Git-Peek is an open source software released under an MIT license. More information at https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/git-peek