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Clone all the forks of a repository, or all the repos of aGitHub Classroom assignment.

This is useful for collecting and reviewing assignments and student projects.

Features:

• Written in Golang for easier distribution. (I got tired juggling of juggling Anaconda / virtualenv between various classroom and tool environments.)
• Automatic repo discovery. Knows about “students fork” and “GitHub Classroom” conventions.
• Repos are cloned in parallel.
• Create amyrepos.mrconfig file.

multiclone is written in Go with support for multiple platforms.The latest release can be found at thereleases page.

Homebrew can be used to install multiclone on macOS:

$ brew tap osteele/homebrew-tap$ brew install multiclone

Create aGitHub personal access token for the command line

SetGITHUB_TOKEN to this value:export GITHUB_TOKEN=…

multiclone https://github.com/owner/repomulticlone owner/repo

Clone forks of owner/repo into the current directory.

multiclone repos.txt

Clones the repo

repos.txt is a file with one repo name-with-owner, e.g.osteele/homework1, per line.

multiclone https://github.com/owner/repo --classroommulticlone org/repo --classroom

Clone org's repos named repo-* into the current directory.

This is intended for use with repos created viaGitHub Classroom.

multiclone --dir path/to/dir owner/repo

Clone into subdirectories ofpath/to/dir, instead of the current directory.

multiclone owner/repo --dry-run

See thegit commands that would be run, without actually running them.

multiclone --help

Lists additional options.

1. Install go (1) viaHomebrew:brew install go; or (2)download.
2. go install github.com/osteele/multiclone

TheseGitHub Education Community forum threads discuss a variety of alternatives (including one I wrote before I wrote this):

• GitHub Classroom: clone assignments
• How to automatically gather or collect assignments?

myrepos automates parallel management of a set ofrepos. It doesn't create the initial repo set, which is that this tool does.

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