Git

I keep a lot of repositories spread across organizations. When I need a local copy of everything (backup, audit, offline work, whatever), I end up writing one-off scripts that are boring, fragile, and always missing the one repo I forgot about. So I wrote a tool to make this boring task repeatable: gitgrab. https://github.com/scottbrown/gitgrab gitgrab does one thing: it grabs every repository from a GitHub organization and puts them in a directory on disk. It talks to the GitHub API, so it sees both public and private repos. When you run it again, it doesn’t re-clone; it updates what you already have. ...

Recently, the CodeCommit service from AWS became available in Canada (ca-central-1 region). As I’m Canadian, I like to keep my hosting as close to home as possible, for myriad reasons, but mainly because each commit getting appended with “eh!”. The CodeCommit service from Amazon (AWS) hosts Git repositories. That’s about it. It’s no Github or Gitlab, but it does ensure at-rest encryption and access is limited to specific IAM users. If you just need private Git hosting for free (or on the cheap) without any WebUI help, CodeCommit is good. ...

I was using BitBucket the other day for a new client, but I wasn’t able to use my standard BitBucket account (business reasons). I attempted to add my standard SSH key (id_rsa) to the new BitBucket account but SSH keys must be unique to the entire BitBucket system. I don’t understand the reason for this uniqueness but there is a way around it using a rarely used SSH technique. First you need to generate a new SSH key. You will name it something different than the default (id_rsa) because it will be used exclusively for the new BitBucket account. ...