The --repo option now accepts URLs in addition to local paths:

• HTTP/HTTPS URLs (e.g. https://github.com/user/repo)
• git@ SSH URLs (e.g. git@github.com:user/repo)

When a URL is provided, the repository is cloned to a temporary directory and the filepath argument is treated as relative to the repo root.

This makes it easier to analyze remote repositories without having to manually clone them first.

Changes:

• Added is_repo_url() and clone_repo_url() functions to cli.py
• Modified --repo option to accept any string (not just existing paths)
• Added validation for file existence after URL handling
• Added tests using a vendored git HTTP server script
• Updated README with examples of using remote URLs

Add a feature where the --repo option can be a URL e.g. https://github.com/simonw/scrape-hacker-news-by-domain or even a git@ reference like git@github.com:simonw/scrape-hacker-news-by-domain

Cover this new feature in the automated tests. Have them actually run a localhost git http server using a vendored copy of this script (stick it in the tests/ folder, run it using subprocess and sys.executable ) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/tools/refs/heads/main/python/git_read_only_http.py -

Update the help output and README too, make sure the tests pass using: uv run --with-editable '.[test]' pytest

Use TDD - write a test, watch it fail, then fix it in the implementation