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fewtarius/github-backup

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A simple script to backup everything.

What's novel

A simple script to backup everything.

Code Analysis

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A comprehensive GitHub backup tool that creates bare git mirrors of repositories and gists while fetching metadata (issues, PRs, releases) to JSON files with multi-account support.

Strengths

Excellent separation of concerns between CLI, discovery, mirroring, and reporting modules. Robust error handling with atomic file writes, retry logic with exponential backoff, rate limit management, token redaction in logs, and resume capability via state tracking. Clean code organization with well-named functions.

Weaknesses

Test coverage is incomplete - integration tests directory appears empty or minimally populated despite the project's complexity. Some edge cases like concurrent runs could use additional locking mechanisms. The tool relies on external git binary which may not work in all environments.

Score Breakdown

Innovation
3 (25%)
Craft
69 (35%)
Traction
17 (15%)
Scope
72 (25%)

Signal breakdown

Innovation

Not Fork+1
Code Novelty+1
Concept Novelty+1

Craft

Ci+5
Tests+8
Polish+0
Releases+3
Has License+5
Code Quality+25
Readme Quality+15
Recent Activity+4
Structure Quality+4
Commit Consistency+0
Has Dependency Mgmt+0

Traction

Forks+6
Stars+6
Hn Points+0
Watchers+0
Early Traction+5
Devto Reactions+0
Community Contribs+0

Scope

Commits+3
Languages+5
Subsystems+10
Bloat Penalty+0
Completeness+6
Contributors+5
Authored Files+12
Readme Code Match+3
Architecture Depth+5
Implementation Depth+8

Evidence

Commits

5

Contributors

1

Files

30

Active weeks

2

TestsCI/CDREADMELicenseContributing

Repository

Language

Python

Stars

3

Forks

1

License

GPL-3.0