gitlab_clone allows you to clone repositories from a gitlab server's group using the gitlab api.

The itch I was scratching by writing this was that I was writing cookbooks for home and work. I wanted an easier way to download all of my cookbooks so that I could work with all of them at once and not have to break my flow by having to download depended cookbooks later. Anyone that has worked with chef knows that you can have a lot of repos comporising all of your cookbooks...

Your tokens for either Gitlab or Gitgub are stored in the settings of your user profile.

For gitlab it will be:

http://gitlab_server/profile/account

For github it will be:

https://github.com/settings/applications

gitlab_clone currently features the following:

• Github organization supprt. You can bring down all the repos in an organization that you have access to.
• Default cloning of all repos that are in a group called Cookbooks.
• Can pick what group you can download all the repos in that group from.
• Will do a git pull if an existing repo has been detected.
• Support for using either ssh or the web url to download.
• List the repos in a group before cloning them.

gitlab-clone -l -g Home

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The following 3 repo(s) were found in the group Home.

	Repo1
	Repo2
	Repo3

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gitlab-clone -w -g Home

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### Starting Web Clone Process Of The Group Home ###

Downloading 3 repo(s) into [HOME_DIR]/projects/Home

Repo1 directory exists, doing a git pull instead.
Cloning Repo2...
Cloning Repo3...

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gitlab-clone -w -g Home -o

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### Starting Web Clone Process Of The Group Home ###

Downloading 3 repo(s) into [HOME_DIR]/projects/Home

Repo1 directory exists, doing a git pull instead.
Cloning Repo2...
Cloning Repo3...

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gem install gitlab_clone 
Will give you a command named gitlab-clone to use.