open-project is a command-line utility written in Rust to streamline management of local clones of GitHub repos and opening them in your preferred terminal multiplexer (tmux or Zellij).

Just type open-project user repo to automatically clone the repo if necessary and open it in tmux (default) or Zellij.

Make sure you have either tmux or Zellij installed:

• Install tmux
• Install Zellij

Build open-project with either nix or cargo and add the binary to your $PATH.

nix build github:cor/open-project

git clone https://github.com/cor/open-project
cd open-project
cargo build --release

open-project [OPTIONS] <username> <projectname>

• -m, --multiplexer <MULTIPLEXER>: Choose terminal multiplexer (tmux or zellij) [default: tmux]

• TERMINAL_MULTIPLEXER: Set default multiplexer (overrides CLI default, but CLI flag takes precedence)

# Use default (tmux)
open-project alice my-repo

# Use zellij
open-project -m zellij alice my-repo

# Use environment variable
TERMINAL_MULTIPLEXER=zellij open-project alice my-repo

This will:

1. Check for a directory $HOME/dev/alice and prompt to create it if missing.
2. Check for the repository my-repo under the user's GitHub and clone it if not present.
3. Attach to or create a session in your chosen multiplexer.

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests to improve this tool.