# gitsnips

Backup GitLab snippets to combined repo using git subtrees

## Required

  - GitLab personal API token with `read_api` privilege
  - Automated git project for storing snippets
  - curl, git, jq, find, mktemp

## Usage

1. Create GitLab API token with `read_api` access (private snippets)
2. Create a new private gitlab project, then clone and configure

        git clone git@gitlab.com:username/snippets.git
        cd snippets
        git config user.name "username"
        git config user.email "username@email.com"

3. If using multiple GitLab accounts/SSH keys:

        git config core.sshCommand "ssh -i ~/.ssh/username -F /dev/null"

4. Specify the token and project directory with `-t ... -d ...`

        ./gitsnips.sh -t ABCDEF1234 -d ../snippets/ -p

5. Review the above changes and `git push` the results when ready

SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT