ghbu: GitHub Backup

Design

Usage (backup the repositories owned by the user with the given GITHUB_TOKEN to ~/github-backup, access by the given SSH key):

$ GITHUB_TOKEN=0123abc ghbu --to ~/github-backup --keyfile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Dependencies

• git2: clone and fetch Git repositories
• reqwest: request repositories from GitHub API
• serde_json: unmarshal GitHub API payloads
• clap: parse command line arguments

TODO

• Refactoring
  • get rid of unwrap() calls
  • restructure code
• Concurrency
  • interleave API calls with cloning/fetching of repositories
• Extension
  • implement for GitLab API
  • implement for Gitea API
  • clone an organization's repositories, too