mass-git-scripts: Bash Scripts for Mass-Cloning & Updating Git Repos

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! 🙏