Script for making a backup of a user/organisations Github repos with commit history

This script allows a user to backup repos with commit history from organisations/users and compress them into a single zip archive

Running the script

Dependancies:

jq git zip

1. Replace <your access token> with your access token from https://github.com/settings/tokens Token only needs repo and org read permisions.

2. Replace <your github user> with your github user and set cloneUserRepos= to true if your cloning a users repos or Replace <Your organiasation> with a org name and set cloneOrgRepos= to true. It is possible to set both to true this will clone both the user and the orgs repo into seperate folders in a single .zip

3. Run the script with you might need to set the script to executable with chmod +x ./cloneall.sh

./cloneall.sh

Restore a repo from a bundle file

Restore notes borrowed from https://gist.github.com/xtream1101/fd79f3099f572967605fab24d976b179

Here we will restore the repo from the bundle and create a new remote origin that will contain all brnaches and tags

1. Clone the repo from the bundle

git clone vuejs_vue.bundle

2. Get all the branches locally to be pushed up to your origin later (from: https://gist.github.com/grimzy/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f72)

git branch -r | grep -v '\->' | while read remote; do git branch --track "${remote#origin/}" "$remote"; done
git fetch --all
git pull --all

3. Create a new repo on your git server and update the origin of the local repo

git remote set-url origin git@github.com/xtream1101/test-backup.git

4. Push all branches and tags to the new remote origin

git push --all
git push --tags