Clone All Github Repos

This code has been created with the purpose of cloning mutliple repositories in a quick and easy way. It has been designed specifically for UBC MDS students, but it's fairly easy to customize the code for your own needs.

The script identifies all links in a specified local file and tries to clone each of these links. In the case of UBC MDS students, the file with all the necessary links is the README file in your personal MDS home repo(e.g. jharmse_home/README.md cloned from https://github.ubc.ca/ubc-mds-2017/jharmse_home).

The script will look for all links in the README starting with https://github.ubc.ca/ubc-mds-2017/ which are assumed to be the repos the user wants to clone. The links are assumed to be in the standard Markdown format, for example [XXX](https://github.ubc.ca/ubc-mds-2017/XXXXXX).

How To Use

1. Clone this repo by running git clone https://github.com/johannesharmse/clone_all.git

2. cd into the clone_all folder.

3. Make sure you have a Markdown file with all the repo links you want to clone saved somewhere locally. In the case of UBC MDS 2017 students the Markdown file is in your MDS Home directory, similar to jharmse_home/README.md (cloned from https://github.ubc.ca/ubc-mds-2017/jharmse_home). This file needs to exist locally before running this code.

4. Run bash clone_all.sh REPO_PATH, where REPO_PATH is the relative local path to the Markdown file of interest. E.g. bash clone_all.sh ../../UBC/Courses/jharmse_home/README.md. You may have to type in your Github credentials once, but the credentials are being cached, which eliminates having to retype it.

5. After waiting for the code to finish, check docs/repos for all your newly cloned repos.