FAQs

How do I create a GitHub personal access token?

You can create a new personal access token by following the steps mentioned here: Creating a personal access token. If you don't want to rotate the tokens after expiry, select the (Classic) option while creating the token and set expiration to Never.

More details can be found here: https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/git-sync/wiki/Generating-Credentials#github

How do I create a GitLab personal access token?

Follow the guide mentioned here: Creating a personal access token. And ensure that the access token have required read permissions in order to fetch your public/private projects.

More details can be found here: https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/git-sync/wiki/Generating-Credentials#gitlab

How do I restore from the backups?

The backups generated by git-sync are essentially bare clones of your repositories. To restore a repository, you can simply clone it from the backup directory. For example:

git clone /path/to/backup/repo.git

I have multiple accounts, some from GitHub and some from GitLab, what should I do?

Since git-sync follows a config driven approach, you can essentially create multiple yaml files, let's say github-account1.yaml and gitlab-account2.yaml and add the necessary information accordingly in these files. Post that, you can simply run git-sync by passing --config path/to/config flag.

Read more about the Flags here: https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/git-sync/wiki/Commands-and-Flags#flags