gh-mirror

Tool to mirror Github repositories locally

use cases

Keeping a local backup of Github repositories

installation

go install github.com/ntns/gh-mirror

usage

$ gh-mirror -init                # init gh-mirror directory and config
$ gh-mirror -add username/repo   # add repo to gh-mirror
$ gh-mirror -list                # list repos added to gh-mirror
$ gh-mirror                      # mirror and update repos

You can use gh-mirror from any directory. Repos will always be saved at ~/gh-mirror/username/repo.

how it works

New repositories are cloned using git clone --mirror

Existing repositories are kept up to date using git remote update

That's it!