Clone all Projects as a Submodule of a Group

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Description

### Description

When users work with multiple projects it may be desirable to clone and pull all projects that belong to a group.

### Proposal

``git clone https://server.tls/username/`` should clone all repositories of that user/group.

### Links / references
There is a feature request in the [old issue tracker](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/3511). There seems to be some interest in such a feature according to the [discussion](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29099456/how-to-clone-all-projects-of-a-group-at-once-in-gitlab) on Stack Overflow

Proposal

It would be nice feature to grab all projects from group as submodules and group being a top level git project having those submodules.

Eg. page http://gitlab/groups/mytestgroup could show a guide

either how to init a new repo and #0-level solution provide just guide mkdir mytestgroup cd mystestgroup git init #... these lines printed based on Projects belonging to group git submodule add repourl1.git git submodule add repourl2.git git submodule add repourl3.git #... loop ends or just implement the auto-creation (if the 'group'-repo does not exist) of mytestgroup git repo on server side #non-trivial solution

git clone -r http://gitlab/groups/mytestgroup.git 

or

git clone http://gitlab/groups/mytestgroup.git 
git submodule init

Links / references

https://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-deprecated-feedback-forum/suggestions/3817051-clone-all-projects-as-a-submodule-of-a-group-a-gr

Customers

https://gitlab.my.salesforce.com/00161000002xBfL