This is a quick script that will archive all of your git repositories managed with gitolite into zip files. This script "works for me" to just archive the master branch of the repositories. There are probably some more elegant ways to do these operations or the gitolite configuration might vary from how I do mine ... feel free to make suggestion…

archive-gitolite-repos.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This script reads a gitolite.conf file to gather a list of all the repositories.
# The script then iterates through all of the repositories names. It then clones only
# the master branch of each repository (git version >= 1.7.10) and then archives the
# repository into a zip file.

if [[ "$1" = "" || "$2" = "" || "$3" = "" ]]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <full path to gitolite.conf> <full path to archive dir> <git clone prefix>" 1>&2
  exit 1
fi

cd $2

for arg in `cat $1 | grep repo`
do
  if [ ${arg} != "repo" ]; then
    echo "Archiving Git repo: ${arg}"

    # clone just the master branch (requires git version >= 1.7.10)
    # git clone -b master --single-branch "$3:${arg}.git"

    # clone the git repo
    git clone "$3${arg}.git"

    # enter into the git repo directory
    cd "${arg}"
    echo `pwd`

    # archive the repo
    git archive --format zip --output "$2/${arg}.zip" master

    # exit the repo directory and then delete it
    cd ..
    rm -rf "${arg}"
  fi
done