Backup & Username Migration Tool for Github Gist

Gist migrate helps you to:

1. Backup your Gists (Public & Private)
2. Change your username in the links to your new username if you have changed it

$ npm install
$ node gist-bm.js -h
  Usage: node gist-bm.js [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help      output usage information
    -u, --username  Username of the Github account
    -o, --out-dir   Directory to clone the gists

Backup example

node gist-bm.js -u anands -o backup
Enter access token: 

Enter the access token here. Use github.com/settings/tokens to create a new access token if you don't have one, this token should have gists permission.

Username migration

Change username references:

Choose the usernames you need to swap, in below example foo will be swaped with bar.

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/gist.github.com\/foo/gist.github.com\/bar/g' {} \;

Tip: cd into output dir if you have specified one while backup.

Commit and push changes:

# Not efficient (does push even if there are no changes) but works!
for i in $(ls -1);do cd $i && git add -A && git diff --quiet --exit-code --cached || git commit -m "Username Migration" && git push origin master && cd ..;done