gitolite-massive-clone.sh

#!/bin/bash
pattern=$1

if [ -z $pattern ]; then
  echo "Please pass a pattern ! (e.g 'modules')"
  exit -3
fi

output=`ssh [email protected] expand $pattern`
echo "$output" | grep '^only' > /dev/null
there_is_more=$?
if [ $there_is_more -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Too many repos matched by the $pattern pattern. Refine it to make sure the one you need gets cloned!"
  echo ""
fi

filtered_list=`echo "$output" | grep -E '^    (@|#|&| )R' | cut -f3`

if [ -z "$filtered_list" ]; then
  echo "No matching repo found. Please relax your pattern."
  exit -4
fi 

echo "Will attempt to clone the following repos:"
echo "$filtered_list" | sed 's/^/  /' 
echo ""
echo "$filtered_list" | while read r; do 
  echo "> Cloning $r"
  #git clone --bare [email protected]:$r $r.git
  #git clone [email protected]:$r $r.git
  git clone [email protected]:$r $r 
  echo ""
done