Git Archiver

A tool designed to mass archive a collection of git repositories on a file system into a format that can be put into "cold storage".

This project is still early in development

Archived Format

When running an archive into specific structure, shown below:

dst/
    enchant97/
        git-archiver/
            branches/
                pre.<archive-type>
            tags/
            all.bundle
            HEAD.<archive-type>
            meta.json

Install

There are many ways of installing and running a Python app. These are the recommended methods.

pipx

pipx is used when you want it installed on the system for a user.

python3 -m pip install --user pipx
python3 -m pipx ensurepath

pipx install git+https://github.com/enchant97/git-archiver.git

git-archiver --help

Docker

This method allows running the program inside a docker container.

docker build -t git-archiver .

docker run --rm -it git-archiver <app args here>

License

This project is Copyright (c) 2022 Leo Spratt, licences shown below:

Code

Apache License - Version 2.0. Full license found in `LICENSE.txt`