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mass-git-scripts: Bash Scripts for Mass-Cloning & Updating Git Repos
  • No, I've never heard of it. It looks interesting and offers more functionality in a structured way, but it's also unmaintained and hasn't had any activity for a long time.

    I'll use it as an inspiration to implement more features and develop the setup of scripts I've already written into a full-fledged command line tool.

    Thank you for the idea! 🙇 I'm curious what this will lead to.

  • mass-git-scripts: Bash Scripts for Mass-Cloning & Updating Git Repos
  • Thanks for the tip! I will do so 🙇‍♂️

  • mass-git-scripts: Bash Scripts for Mass-Cloning & Updating Git Repos
    github.com GitHub - f3rno64/mass-git-scripts: A collection of scripts for working with a few or a large number of git repos at once.

    A collection of scripts for working with a few or a large number of git repos at once. - f3rno64/mass-git-scripts

    GitHub - f3rno64/mass-git-scripts: A collection of scripts for working with a few or a large number of git repos at once.

    After an unexpected need to reset my work machine 😓, and needing to set up my development environment again by hand 🛠️, I decided to create a solution to quickly restore my local git repositories (and associated folder structure) 🔄.

    I took this opportunity to write two bash scripts that clone and update all repositories on GitHub belonging to either a user or an organization 📦.

    This means that, for example, with a single command ⌨️, you can clone hundreds or thousands of repositories, with high levels of concurrency (50 clones in parallel is doable 💨).

    The scripts allow for a configurable clone depth, a limit for the number of repositories cloned, and a level of concurrency that decides how many clones are run in parallel 📈.

    By running the following command:

    git-clone-all --owner f3rno64 --limit 200 --jobs 40 --dir ./f3rno64

    I was able to clone all 174 personal repositories 📚, with full commit histories and all tags & branches, in 58 seconds ⏱️.

    I wrote a blog post describing this in more detail here 📝, check it out for a breakdown of the arguments and examples of usage.

    The GitHub repository is f3rno64/mass-git-scripts and the README also includes examples and general usage instructions 🗂️.

    Please check it out and let me know what you think! 💬

    I hope you find it useful, and any feedback or suggestions for improvement would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

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