Many people are scared because Microsoft bought GitHub. I wonder why people are so shocked now. Github is just another cloud-thingy and cloud means: “it’s just the computer of someone else”. If “someone else” will shutdown or wipe his computer, then we better have backups. Having this in our minds I would say that it’s time to make (auto)backups. I wrote this little ruby-script that clones all public repositories of a user into a directory. If the repositories already exist locally, then this script will just make a “git-pull”.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'fileutils'
directory = "./"
def help
warn "usage: #{$PROGRAM_NAME} <github-user> [<dst-directory>]"
exit 1
end
# got this function from stackoverflow.com:
# stackoverflow.com/questions/2108727/which-in-ruby-checking-if-program-exists-in-path-from-ruby
def which(cmd)
exts = ENV['PATHEXT'] ? ENV['PATHEXT'].split(';') : ['']
ENV['PATH'].split(File::PATH_SEPARATOR).each do |path|
exts.each { |ext|
exe = File.join(path, "#{cmd}#{ext}")
return exe if File.executable?(exe) && !File.directory?(exe)
}
end
return nil
end
gitbin = which("git")
if gitbin.nil?
warn "git-binary not found"
exit 1
end
if ARGV.length < 1 || ARGV.length > 2
help
end
gituser = ARGV[0]
directory = ARGV[1] if ARGV.length == 2
unless File.directory?(directory)
FileUtils::mkdir_p directory
end
uri = URI("https://api.github.com/users/#{gituser}/repos")
resp = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
parsed = JSON.parse(resp)
parsed.each do |p|
if File.directory?("#{directory}/#{p['name']}")
system("cd #{directory}/#{p['name']} && #{gitbin} pull")
else
system("#{gitbin} clone https://github.com/#{p['full_name']} #{directory}/#{p['name']}")
end
end
</dst-directory></github-user>
