In my GitLab repository, I have a group with 20 projects. I want to clone all projects at once. Is that possible?
Update Dec. 2022, use glab repo clone
glab repo clone -g <group> -a=false -p --paginate
With:
-p, --preserve-namespace: Clone the repo in a subdirectory based on namespace--paginate: Make additional HTTP requests to fetch all pages of projects before cloning. Respects --per-page-a, --archived: Limit by archived status. Use with -a=false to exclude archived repositories. Used with --group flagThat does support cloning more than 100 repositories (since MR 1030, and glab v1.24.0, Dec. 2022)
This is for gitlab.com or for a self-managed GitLab instance, provided you set the environment variable GITLAB_URI or GITLAB_HOST: it specifies the URL of the GitLab server if self-managed (eg: https://gitlab.example.com).
Original answer and updates (starting March 2015):
Not really, unless:
you have a 21st project which references the other 20 as submodules.
(in which case a clone followed by a git submodule update --init would be enough to get all 20 projects cloned and checked out)
or you somehow list the projects you have access (GitLab API for projects), and loop on that result to clone each one (meaning that can be scripted, and then executed as "one" command)
Since 2015, Jay Gabez mentions in the comments (August 2019) the tool gabrie30/ghorg
ghorgallows you to quickly clone all of an org's or user's repos into a single directory.
Usage:
$ ghorg clone someorg
$ ghorg clone someuser --clone-type=user --protocol=ssh --branch=develop
$ ghorg clone gitlab-org --scm=gitlab --namespace=gitlab-org/security-products
$ ghorg clone --help
Also (2020): https://github.com/ezbz/gitlabber
usage: gitlabber [-h] [-t token] [-u url] [--debug] [-p]
[--print-format {json,yaml,tree}] [-i csv] [-x csv]
[--version]
[dest]
Gitlabber - clones or pulls entire groups/projects tree from gitlab