A python library/script to automate cloning a repository.

1. It will download/clone the public Github repository locally.
2. It will remove the files LICENCE.txt and README.md and all the git history(and branches)
3. It will create a new Github repository initialized with the input github repository

You can run GitClone.py or install GitClone.exe and run via cmd using the arguments

• optional arguments:
  -h, --help show this help message and exit
• required argument:
  -u USERNAME Username
  -p PASSWORD Password
  -i INPUTURL Input repository(public) url like https://github.com/username/repository
  -o OUTPUTNAME Output repository name

Setup

Instructions to run GitClone.py on cmd

For argument help

C:\path\to\script> python GitClone.py --help

Sample parameters

C:\path\to\script>python GitClone.py -u somename -p somepassword -i https://github.com/username/repository -o newreponame

Instructions to run GitClone.exe as an executable

Install GitClone.exe and run cmd in the same directory.

For argument help

C:\path\to\exe> .\GitClone.exe --help

Sample parameters

C:\path\to\script>.\GitClone.exe -u somename -p somepassword -i https://github.com/username/repository -o newreponame