Defend against repository takedowns on Github
- Create multiple accounts on GH
- Get https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md
- Authorize your accounts each via
gh auth login - Fork & clone targets
#!/bin/bash
# Replace 'user_or_organization' with the actual GitHub username or organization name
USER_OR_ORG="target-account"
# Replace 'limit' with the number of repositories you want to list. Use a high number to list all.
LIMIT=100
# List repositories, fork them, and then clone
gh repo list $USER_OR_ORG --limit $LIMIT --json nameWithOwner -q ".[].nameWithOwner" | while read repo; do
# Fork the repository to your account
echo "Forking $repo..."
gh repo fork "$repo" --clone=false
# Construct your fork's SSH URL assuming your GitHub username is 'your_username'
# Replace 'your_username' with your actual GitHub username
# Note: Replace ':' with '/' in the SSH URL for the correct format
FORK_SSH_URL="git@github.com:$(echo $repo | sed 's/:/\//')"
echo "Cloning $FORK_SSH_URL..."
git clone $FORK_SSH_URL
done
- Out of all your new forked accounts, it makes sense to make some private too
#!/bin/bash
# Your GitHub username
USERNAME="your-account"
# List all repositories for the user, filter for forks, and update to private
gh repo list $USERNAME --json nameWithOwner,isFork --limit 100 | jq -r '.[] | select(.isFork==true) | .nameWithOwner' | while read repo; do
echo "Setting $repo to private..."
gh repo edit "$repo" --visibility private
done