githose v0.9.8a

githose concurrently archives GitHub users' code repositories and gist text!

githose is similar to github_cloner by anantshri on GitHub which is written in Python. However, that project does not support gists or implement any form of concurrent programming. githose utilizes background processing for a significant speedup in multi-tasking, especially when a user's account hosts many hundreds of repositories (and some which are rather large.)

Features

The table below is a feature comparison between githose and similar tools:

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Software Tool	Colors	Threads	Gists	One-to-many	GUI
web interface	yes	no	yes	no	yes
git(1) CLI	yes	no	no	no	no
github_cloner	no	no	no	yes	no
githose	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
---------------	--------	---------	-------	-------------	-----

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Documentation

• Refer to the doc directory which has the files/directories outlined below:

  1. AUTHORS.md

  2. NEWS.md

  3. FAQ.md

  4. INSTALL.md

  5. LICENSE.md

  6. GUIDE.md

  7. TODO.md

  8. use-cases

  • gisthose-clone-decal.scr

    • typescript of command downloading all gists for GitHub user decal created by script(1)
    • i.e. those that can be viewed on the web at: https://gists.github.com/decal

  • githose-clone-decal.scr

    • typescript of command downloading all repos for GitHub user decal
    • i.e. those that can be viewed on the web at: https://github.com/decal?tab=repositories

  • gristhose-clone-decal.scr

    • typescript of command downloading all gists + repos of GitHub user decal
    • i.e. those that can be viewed on the web at the hyperlinks referenced in the two bullet points above

Feature List

• Multi-Threaded Anonymous Access to GitHub API v3

  • Git commands parallelized with bash (Bourne Again Shell) background processing
  • Application-level anonymity due to lack of uniquely identifying API key
  • Responsibility for transport layer anonymity falls squarely on the user
  • Low-level network function wrapper like torify needed to conceal source IP

• Clone/pull all of a user's repositories and gists in one fell swoop

  • githose handles code repositories
  • gisthose handles gist entries
  • gristhose handles both code repositories and gist entries

• Support for ANSI escape code colors

Developer and Test Environment Info

Coded by*:* Derek Callaway <decal {AT} sdf {D0T} org> @decalresponds on Twitter

Tested in*:* Linux Version 4.8.0-kali2-amd64, Compiled #1 SMP Debian 4.8.15-1kali1 (2016-12-23) Linux 4.4.0-43-Microsoft #1-Microsoft Wed Dec 31 14:42:53 PST 2014 x86_64

Released at*:* Thu Feb 16 02:01:31 EST 2017

Updated on*:* Sun Jun 25 07:58:55 PDT 2017