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✨ Giphon is the contraction of 🦊 Gitlab and 🫗 siphon. This CLI tools allows users to recursively clone all projects in a given Gitlab group or instance.

Motivation

This project aims to provide a tool capable of replicating a Gitlab group's structure into a directory structure.

Locally cloned projects enable users to use familiar CLI tools such as grep and sed directly into the projects' tree structure.

Demo

Installation

To install giphon, simply run:

pip install --user giphon

And if you wish to use giphon by simply calling giphon, you can set-up an alias in your .bashrc (or other, if you have another shell):

echo 'alias giphon="/usr/bin/env python3 -m giphon"' >> ~/.bashrc

Parameters

The giphon tool allows for the following parameters:

• namespace (CLI: --namespace): The Gitlab namespace to be cloned. / defaults to the whole instance.
• output (CLI: --output): The target path to clone the repositories to.
• gitlab_token: (CLI: --gitlab-token, env: GITLAB_TOKEN): The Personal Access Token authenticating the user.
• gitlab_url: (CLI: --gitlab-url, env: GITLAB_URL): The URL of the Gitlab instance to clone the repositories from. Defaults to "https://gitlab.com"
• fetch_repositories: (CLI: --fetch-repositories/--no-fetch-repositories): Whether to fetch remotes on repositories that already exist.
• save_ci_variables: (CLI: --save-ci-variables/--no-save-ci-variables): Whether to download CI/CD variables to a .env directory.
• clone_archived (CLI: --clone-archived/--no-clone-archived): Whether to also clone archived repository.
• clone_through_ssh: (CLI: --clone-through-ssh/--no-clone-through-ssh): Whether to use the SSH protocol or the HTTPS protocol to clone the git repositories
• gitlab_username (CLI: --gitlab-username, env: GITLAB_USERNAME): The username to use, when cloning through HTTPS.
• verbose: (CLI: --verbose/-v): The level of verbosity

Running programmatically

You can import the main function from giphon as such:

from pathlib import Path

from giphon.siphon import siphon

siphon(
    namespace=Path("my-namespace"),
    output=Path("~/Projects"),
    gitlab_token="",
    gitlab_url="https://gitlab.com",
    fetch_repositories=True,
    save_ci_variables=False,
    clone_archived=False,
    verbose=False,
)

The function takes as inputs the same parameters from the CLI tool.

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