Gitlabber

• A Gitlab clone/pull tool to manage entire Gitlab trees (groups, subgroups, projects) *

Purpose

When working with large Gitlab setups you typically need a subset of the projects residing in groups of interest.

Gitlabber allows you to clone pull all projects under a subset of groups / subgroups.

Gitlabber builds a tree structure from the Gitlab server and allows you to specify which subset of the tree you want to clone using glob or regex expressions

This makes Gitlabber suitable for development environments or backups scenarios

Installation

• 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

Usage

• 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
  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 .
• 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     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')
-m {ssh,http}, --method {ssh,http}
                        the method to use for cloning (either "ssh" or "http")
-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
--version             print the version

examples:

    clone an entire gitlab tree using a url and a token:
    gitlabber -t <personal access token> -u <gitlab url>

    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].*}' .

Debugging

• 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'