Github-clone makes it easy to clone all github projects of a user, using either the public or private clone urls for the projects.

Clone all public repositories of user Narnach, using the public clone URLs:

github-clone Narnach

Clone all repositories of user Narnach, using the private clone URLs and suppressing console output:

github-clone Narnach -q --private

When you simply want a list of your repositories with their clone urls, that's an option too:

github-clone Narnach --dry-run --private

The output will look something like this:

Username matches github.user configuration, so using that to access private repositories.
Would clone aasterinian: git@github.com:Govannon/aasterinian.git
Would clone future: git@github.com:Narnach/future.git
Already exists: github-clone for git@github.com:Narnach/github-clone.git

As you can see this accounts for your private organizations and collaborator repos as well.

When you have your github.user and github.token properly setup (howto) in your ~/.gitconfig, github-clone will use that information to fetch a list of your private repositories and clone those in addition to your public repositories.

You can find and/or setup your access tokens here. You only need the repo scope: https://github.com/settings/tokens

• Add support to fetch/pull repositories as well as clone them. This makes automatic backups a possibility.
• Turn this script into a proper ruby gem.
• Add support to clone gitosis-managed repositories.

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