hubdiary

hubdiary is a CLI to write your diary and save it in a GitHub repository.

Install

go install go.nownabe.dev/hubdiary@latest

Usage

Set GitHub Personal Access Token to the environment variable GITHUB_PAT.

export GITHUB_PAT="xxx"

hubdiary

# or you can specify the date
hubdiary 2006-01-02

Configuration

You can configure hubdiary with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hubdiary/config.json. If you don't specify $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, ~/.config/hubdiary/config.json is the default path to the config file.

This is an example.

{
  "owner": "owner",
  "repo": "repo",
  "branch": "main",
  "committer_name": "myname",
  "committer_email": "[email protected]",
  "pat": "GitHub personal access token",
  "editor": "/path/to/vim"
}

• owner: Owner of repository to store diary in. Default comes from user.name of git config.
• repo: Repository to store diary in. Default is diary.
• branch: Branch of the repository to store diary in. Default is main.
• committer_name: Name of the author of commits. Default comes from user.name of git config.
• committer_email: Email of the author of commits. Default comes from user.email of git config.
• pat: GitHub Personal Access Token. If not specified in the config file, pat is given by $GITHUB_PAT.
• editor: Editor to write diary. If not specified, hubdiary uses $EDITOR.