ghorg

A command-line utility to clone all repositories belonging to a GitHub organization.

Runs as ghorg|macOS, Linux, Windows|github.com

Command form

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Clone every repository of an organization, group or user. Tokens are deliberately not a field; keep them in the ghorg config or the environment.

Opens the form; the finished command lands at your prompt, unrun

Run in Otty

otty gui ghorg

`ghorg clone`

Clone all repositories of an owner

Clone all repositories of an ownerExample values, fixed in this page — nothing here reaches a terminal

Basic

Organization, group or user*

string

Clone into (absolute path)

directory

Skip archived

--skip-archived

Skip forks

--skip-forks

TasksEach one presets the form for one job

Clone an organization

ownerpathskip_archivedskip_forks

Mirror backup

ownerpathskip_archived

ParametersOnly these flags are editable in the form

Organization, group or user

string · positional 0

Hosting service

string

--scmgitlab

Owner type

string

--clone-typeuser

Self-hosted base URL

url

--base-url

Clone into (absolute path)

path

--path

Output directory name

string

--output-dir

Only repositories matching regex

string

--match-regex

Skip archived

boolean

--skip-archived

Skip forks

boolean

--skip-forks

Preserve directory structure

boolean

--preserve-dir

Mirror backup

boolean

--backup

Concurrent clones

integer

--concurrency

SourcesEvery flag above is checked against these

readme

$ ghorg clone davecheney --clone-type=user --token=<token> $ ghorg clone gitlab-examples --scm=gitlab --preserve-dir --token=<token> $ ghorg clone all-groups --scm=gitlab --base-url=https://gitlab.internal.yourcompany.com --preserve-dir $ ghorg clone kubernetes --path=/tmp/ghorg $ ghorg clone kubernetes --match-regex=^sig- --output-dir=kubernetes-sig-only Sk…

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Before it fills your prompt, Otty checks the installed ghorg against its version. A form that does not match your version is not offered.