Copy Git Repos is a Bash script for copying all Git repositories or those updated in the last 30 days owned by a given account from Github to your local system.
It can be run as a script or a docker container and is developed on an Ubuntu Linux system.
clone this repo and cd into it
git clone https://github.com/headshed-dev/copy-git-repos
cd copy-git-repos
build using docker with
docker build -t copy-git-repos:initial .install for using the script with its prerequisites jq, cur, git in Ubuntu or Debian
apt-get update
apt-get install -y jq curl gitcreate an env file env/user containing
GIT_USERNAME=user
GIT_TOKEN=ghp_<users personal git token>
In your current directory, create a data directory into which the git repositories will be copied to.
Run the previously built container with:
docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/data:/app/data -v ./env/user:/app/.env copy-git-repos:initial ./copy_github_repos.sh -p user -w /app/data -rwhere user is the username in the env file that owns the github repositories.
./copy_github_repos.sh
Usage: ./copy_github_repos.sh [-e|--envfile <string>] [-p|--prefix <string>] [-w | --workdir <string>] [-h|--help] [-r | --run] [-f | --full]
<env_file> is the name of the file to read environment variables from.
Example 1:
./copy_github_repos.sh -e env/youruser -p youruser --run --full
backs up all repos it can find up to 10 pages of 100 repos per page
If the env file is not in the current directory, provide the full path to the file.
Example 2:
./copy_github_repos.sh -e env/youruser -p youruser --run
backs up repos that have been updated in the last 30 days
Example env file contentts
GIT_USERNAME=<your github username>
GIT_TOKEN=ghp_<your github personal access token>
Default behaviour is for repositories to be copied to a directory under the current users home BACKUPS="$HOME/github-backups" or this may be specified with the -w | --workdir flag.
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.