cloneholio

Maintain local backups of all Git repositories belonging to a user or group.

Features:

• Supports both GitHub and GitLab.
• Back up all repositories owned by users, groups, and subgroups.
• Back up individual repositories.
• Scale to a configurable number of processes.

Installation

• Arch Linux
• PyPI

Token Setup

GitHub

Create a personal access token (Tokens (classic))) with the following permissions:

• repo:status

GitLab

Create a personal access token with the following permissions:

• api (Access the authenticated user's API)

Example

This will back up all repositories owned by the python organization on GitHub.

$ cloneholio -t TOKEN -p github python
INFO Begin "github" processing using "/home/draje/Code/GitLab/nvllsvm/cloneholio"
INFO Processing python/asyncio
INFO Processing python/bpo-builder
...
INFO Processing python/typing
INFO Finished "github" processing 62 repos with 0 failures

Help

$ cloneholio -h
usage: cloneholio [-h] [-n NUM_PROCESSES] [-d DIRECTORY] -t TOKEN
                  [-p {github,gitlab}] [--depth DEPTH] [--insecure]
                  [-u BASE_URL] [--version]
                  paths [paths ...]

Maintain local backups of all Git repositories belonging to a user or group.


positional arguments:
  paths

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -n NUM_PROCESSES      Number of processes to use
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
  -t TOKEN, --token TOKEN
  -p {github,gitlab}, --provider {github,gitlab}
  --depth DEPTH         Corresponds to the git clone --depth option
  --insecure            Ignore SSL errors
  -u BASE_URL, --base-url BASE_URL
  --version             show program's version number and exit