kazvee/git-clone-helpers

✨ Helper scripts to clone remote repos to local machine after a reinstall 💻

Git Clone Helpers

Helper scripts to clone remote repos to local machine after a reinstall

Used on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04) & Windows 11 using WSL2 (with Ubuntu 22.04)

Setup

Prerequisites

• GitHub Personal Access Token (classic)
  • Generate a new PAT, ensuring it has at least repo scope
• Linux:
  • jq (command-line JSON processor)
  • curl (CLI tool & data transfer library)

🌎 Clone Public Repos

1. Navigate to the directory where you want to clone all your repos

2. Add the clone_public_repos.sh script file to the directory

3. Add execute permissions to the file with chmod +x clone_public_repos.sh

4. Run the file with ./clone_public_repos.sh

5. The terminal will prompt you to enter your GitHub username and Personal Access Token, and then cloning will begin

🤫 Clone Private Repos

1. Navigate to the directory where you want to clone all your repos

2. Add the clone_private_repos.sh script file to the directory

3. Add execute permissions to the file with chmod +x clone_private_repos.sh

4. Run the file with ./clone_private_repos.sh

5. The terminal will prompt you to enter your GitHub username and Personal Access Token, and then cloning will begin

Optional:

Once cloning is complete, use ls -l | grep -c '^d' to display the number of directories in the current directory