Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitHub-backup

In plain words

github-backup is a development tool that allows users to create local backups of their public GitHub repositories. It is designed for developers who want to maintain offline copies of their code. The tool is hosted on GitHub and welcomes community contributions to its development.

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