Whoops, gitty was already taken on NPM, I thought I checked. Name change will be coming soon lol
Gitty is a command-line tool that helps you backup all your git repositories from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or any other git hosting service. It has lots of options, and is fully interactive!
You can install Gitty using npm:
npm install -g gitty
Or you can download the binary for your platform from the releases page.
To backup all your repos, simply run:
gitty
Gitty scans your disk for GitHub repos, intelligently filters them to ones that have changes, then allows you to pick and choose which ones to back up.
You can also use the following options:
Usage: backup_all_repos [options]
Options:
--help Show this message
--username Username (skips API check for username if provided)
--email Email address (used instead of "git config --get user.email" if provided)
--dir Directory to backup to (defaults to $HOME)
--no-exclude Don't exclude folders such as ~/Library, ~/.cache, .git, etc.
--find-orphans Find any repos that don't have a remote URL.
--output Give the output in JSON, plain text or readable format. (json|plain|readable).
--mine-only Only show repos owned by me
--not-mine Only show repos NOT owned by me
--omit-submodules Don't search for submodules in repos
--all Just list all repos found
--quiet Don't log anything except the output
For example, to backup all your repos to a folder called backup without excluding any folders, run:
gitty --dir backup --no-exclude
To backup only your GitHub repos with a specific username and email address, run:
gitty --username explosion-scratch --email explosion@scratch.com
To get back a machine readable format you can do something like this:
gitty --quiet --output plain --all
View repos without remote URLs (maybe you forgot to connect it to your repo):
gitty --find-orphans
View all the repos you've cloned that aren't yours
gitty --not-mine
Make search faster and don't search for submodules in each repo:
gitty --omit-submodules
- 🚀 Backup all your git repos with one command
- 🌐 Supports GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and any other git hosting service
- 📝 Allows you to choose which repos to backup
- 🗑️ Excludes folders such as
~/Library,~/.cache,.git, etc. by default (can be disabled with--no-exclude) - 💻 Fully interactive via inquirer
- 🎨 Uses colors and spinners to make the output more user-friendly
MIT (c) Explosion-Scratch