Clone someone's AC codes

[xalanq]

There is a easy way to clone ourselves codes by this bash script

for((i=1;i<=2000;i++)); do cf pull ac $i; done

But it cannot clone other's codes and seems like not good.
So, I decide to add a new command clone for cloning someone's codes.

[GaurangTandon]

Why not just add a new argument to cf pull, like cf pull user=xalanq ...? By default, let user be the currently logged in user. Thoughts?

[xalanq]

By default, if you just use cf pull, it will not pull all your codes (It will detect the parameters from the path). So if the tool use cf pull to clone all codes, it has to add a new parameter or something else. So I decide to add new command clone just like git clone :). What do you think?

[infalmo]

You could make cf pull in such a way that if no parameter is provided, pull all submissions of a user. Also, @GaurangTandon s idea could be implemented.

[GaurangTandon]

I am seeing two things here:

1. cloning another user's codes (you said "But it cannot clone other's codes")
2. cloning all codes written by a user (you said "By default, if you just use cf pull, it will not pull all your codes")

For each of these we could add two new parameters to cf pull:

1. user=<username> - user whose codes you want to pull
2. since=<date> - specify date starting from which you want to pull all the codes

Specifying since=01/01/1970 would let user, for example, pull all their codes.

I am a bit hesitant about cf clone because it will complicate things for the end user (another command to remember). Whereas in most cases user can ignore the user and since parameters and cf pull will do what they want to (pull codes related to a particular problem).

But these are just suggestions, I am happy to discuss further :)

[xalanq]

I partially agree with you. But we should remember not only commands but also the parameters of commands. Both of them should be simpler.

cf pull --user=xalanq --since=01/01/1970

cf clone xalanq

I think the latter is simpler.

On the other hand, I think pulling all codes from Codeforces is not a high frequency requirement. If someone want to do that, just see the usage.