github-clone

This simple Perl script has its roots in an email from a good friend:

Maybe there should be a repo browser like your anime downloader
script. You would run the script, give it the name of a github
user, and it would let you pull clone some or all of his repos
into subdirectories. Then you could also add batch fetches and
stuff.

Thus github-clone was born.

Requirements

1. Perl 5.10 or Higher
2. Modern::Perl
3. LWP
4. JSON

The program should work on any major operating system. It has been tested on Ubuntu 11.10 and Microsoft Vista 32-bit.

Usage

$ ./github-clone <username>

This will clone all of the user’s repositories into the current directory. For example:

$ mkdir dumb-crap-by-ejmr && cd dumb-crap-by-ejmr
$ ./github-clone ejmr
Cloning JTorrent: A Perl script for fetching Japanese media torrents.
Cloning php-mode: A PHP mode for GNU Emacs
Cloning EmacsPKG: A Simple Tool for Collecting Elisp Files

Future Plans

I am open to any ideas people might have that would make this script more useful. For certain I plan on adding some method of interaction so that you can decide which repositories to clone. Please feel free to leave feature requests here, or email them to me at Ren at lifesnotsimple dot com.

License

github-clone is Public Domain.