- A utility to clone and pull Gitlab groups, subgroups, projects based on path selection
Gitlabber clones or pulls all projects under a subset of groups / subgroups by building a tree from the Gitlab API and allowing you to specify which subset of the tree you want to clone using glob patterns and/or regex expressions.
- You can install gitlabber from PyPi :
pip install gitlabber- You'll need to create an access token from Gitlab with API scopes read_repository and read_api
- Arguments can be provided via the CLI arguments directly or via environment variables::
Argument
Flag
Environment Variable
token
-t
GITLAB_TOKEN
url
-u
GITLAB_URL
method
-m
GITLABBER_CLONE_METHOD
naming
-n
GITLABBER_FOLDER_NAMING
include
-i
GITLABBER_INCLUDE
exclude
-x
GITLABBER_EXCLUDE
To view the tree run the command with your includes/excludes and the -p flag it will print your tree like so
root [http://gitlab.my.com]
├── group1 [/group1]
│ └── subgroup1 [/group1/subgroup1]
│ └── project1 [/group1/subgroup1/project1]
└── group2 [/group2]
├── subgroup1 [/group2/subgroup1]
│ └── project2 [/group2/subgroup1/project2]
├── subgroup2 [/group2/subgroup2]
└── subgroup3 [/group2/subgroup3]- To see how to use glob patterns and regex to filter tree nodes see globre project page .
- Cloning vs Pulling: when running Gitlabber consecutively with same parameters it will scan the local tree structure, if the project directory exists and is a valid git repository (has .git folder in it) gitlabber will perform a git pull in the directory, otherwise the project directory will be created and the gitlab project will be cloned into it.
- Cloning submodules: use the -r flag to recurse git submodules, uses the --recursive for cloning and utilizes GitPython's smart update method for upading cloned repositories
- Printed Usage:
usage: gitlabber [-h] [-t token] [-u url] [--verbose] [-p]
[--print-format {json,yaml,tree}] [-m {ssh,https}] [-i csv]
[-x csv] [--version]
[dest]
Gitlabber - clones or pulls entire groups/projects tree from gitlab
positional arguments:
dest destination path for the cloned tree (created if doesn't exist)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t token, --token token
gitlab personal access token https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/personal_access_tokens.html
-u url, --url url base gitlab url (e.g.: 'http://gitlab.mycompany.com')
--verbose print more verbose output
-p, --print print the tree without cloning
--print-format {json,yaml,tree}
print format (default: 'tree')
-n {name,path}, --naming {name,path}
the folder naming strategy for projects (default: "name")
-m {ssh,http}, --method {ssh,http}
the git transport method to use for cloning (default: "ssh")
-a {include,exclude,only}, --archived {include,exclude,only}
include archived projects and groups in the results (default: "include")
-i csv, --include csv
comma delimited list of glob patterns of paths to projects or groups to clone/pull
-x csv, --exclude csv
comma delimited list of glob patterns of paths to projects or groups to exclude from clone/pull
-r, --recursive clone/pull git submodules recursively
--version print the version
examples:
clone an entire gitlab tree using a base url and a token:
gitlabber -t <personal access token> -u <gitlab url> .
# the following examples assume you provided token/url in environment variables so these arguments are omitted
only print the gitlab tree:
gitlabber -p .
clone only projects under subgroup 'MySubGroup' to location '~/GitlabRoot':
gitlabber -i '/MyGroup/MySubGroup**' ~/GitlabRoot
clone only projects under group 'MyGroup' excluding any projects under subgroup 'MySubGroup':
gitlabber -i '/MyGroup**' -x '/MyGroup/MySubGroup**' .
clone an entire gitlab tree except projects under groups named 'ArchiveGroup':
gitlabber -x '/ArchiveGroup**' .
clone projects that start with a case insensitive 'w' using a regular expression:
gitlabber -i '/{[w].*}' .- You can use the --verbose flag to get Gitlabber debug messages printed
- For more verbose gitlab messages you can get GitPython module to print more debug messages by setting the environment variable:
export GIT_PYTHON_TRACE='full'- GitlabHttpError: 503: make sure you provide the base url to your gitalb installation (e.g., https://gitlab.my.com and not https://gitlab.my.com/some/nested/path)
- Renaming, moving and deleting projects: Gitlabber doesn't maintain local tree state(projects and groups), for that reason is does not rename move or delete local projects when they are modified on the server. When projects are moved or renamed Gitlabber will clone them again under their new name or location. When deleted, Gitlabber will not delete the local project.
- Folder Naming Strategy: consecutively running gitlabber with different values for the -n parameter will produce undesirable results, keep the same value as previous runs or simply don't change it from the default (project name)
- When using gitlab.com observe rate limits when cloning large number of projects and the ones for on-premise installations