--all-starred does not backup anything #225

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1. josegonzalez commented on Jan 29, 2024

   

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   Pull requests welcome.

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2. whwright commented on Jan 31, 2024

   

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   What full command are you using and what is the expected behavior? This is probably due to a strange combination of command line arguments - and I will admit they are not as intuitive as they could be as features have been incrementally added.

   I saw the described behavior with github-backup -t ${T} --starred --all-starred -o output/ whwright, however it does work if you include either --repositories or --all. This is because backing up any repository is gated behind those flags:

   python-github-backup/github_backup/github_backup.py

   Line 978 in 53d2cee

   if (args.include_repository or args.include_everything) or (
3. andry81 commented on Jun 3, 2024

   

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   @whwright I retested the latest and the result is the same. It does backup only the RestAPI response. And does not attempt to git clone anything.

   Log:

   >"c:/python/x64/312/python.exe" "c:/Python/x64/312/Scripts/github-backup" --starred --all-starred --bare -t ghp_* -o "w:\work\MyProjects\!__backup\store\github.com/2024'06'03_23'00'13''543.backup-all-starred/starred/andry81" "andry81"
   2024-06-03T23:00:13.749: Create output directory W:\work\MyProjects\!__backup\store\github.com\2024'06'03_23'00'13''543.backup-all-starred\starred\andry81
   2024-06-03T23:00:13.750: Backing up user andry81 to W:\work\MyProjects\!__backup\store\github.com\2024'06'03_23'00'13''543.backup-all-starred\starred\andry81
   2024-06-03T23:00:13.750: Requesting https://api.github.com/user?per_page=100&page=1
   2024-06-03T23:00:14.065: Retrieving repositories
   2024-06-03T23:00:14.065: Requesting https://api.github.com/user/repos?per_page=100&page=1
   2024-06-03T23:00:15.865: Requesting https://api.github.com/user/repos?per_page=100&page=2
   2024-06-03T23:00:19.656: Requesting https://api.github.com/user/repos?per_page=100&page=3
   2024-06-03T23:00:21.605: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=1
   2024-06-03T23:00:23.826: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=2
   2024-06-03T23:00:26.134: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=3
   2024-06-03T23:00:29.260: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=4
   2024-06-03T23:00:31.604: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=5
   2024-06-03T23:00:33.243: Filtering repositories
   2024-06-03T23:00:33.244: Backing up repositories
   2024-06-03T23:00:33.250: Retrieving andry81 starred repositories
   2024-06-03T23:00:33.250: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=1
   2024-06-03T23:00:35.637: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=2
   2024-06-03T23:00:38.259: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=3
   2024-06-03T23:00:40.393: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=4
   2024-06-03T23:00:42.673: Requesting https://api.github.com/users/andry81/starred?per_page=100&page=5
   2024-06-03T23:00:44.103: Writing 444 starred repositories to disk
   

   After that only the JSON file is existing:

   w:\work\MyProjects!__backup\store\github.com\2024'06'03_23'00'13''543.backup-all-starred\starred\andry81\account\starred.json

   Is that supposed to work like this?
4. whwright commented on Jun 3, 2024

   

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   @andry81 as stated above I believe this will work if you include --repositories or --all
5. andry81 commented on Jun 3, 2024

   

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   Seems https://*****:x-oauth-basic@github.com/ url prefix saves in the bare repository config which is not secure I think.
6. andry81 commented on Jun 3, 2024

   

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   I've added --repositories and it backups both the starred AND mine repositories. I don't want to backup mine, I want to backup starred only. Is there a way?
7. whwright commented on Jun 14, 2024

   

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   Yeah that's true, I think it would be a reasonable change to backup starred repos with only --all-starred. That would be an easy change.
8. Iamrodos commented on Dec 7, 2025

   

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   @josegonzalez this can be closed. Addressed by 6e2a7e5 in PR #461
9. josegonzalez

   closed this as completedon Dec 8, 2025