diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index da69927..91a7ee8 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Copyright (c) 2008 Wes Oldenbeuving
+Copyright (c) 2017,2021 Matija Nalis <mnalis-git@voyager.hr>
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9bf65db..8af99d7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## Description
 
 Github-clone makes it easy to clone all github projects of a user, using either the public or private clone urls for the projects.
+This version adds option to clone to bare repository with "git clone --mirror", and would also update it at later time with "git fetch" it it exists
 
 ## Examples
 
@@ -41,4 +42,6 @@ You can find and/or setup your access tokens here. You only need the `repo` scop
 
 ## Author
 
-Copyright (c) 2008-2017 - Wes Oldenbeuving, released under the MIT license.
\ No newline at end of file
+Copyright (c) 2008-2017 - Wes Oldenbeuving, released under the MIT license.
+
+Copyright (c) 2017 - Matija Nalis, released under the MIT license.
diff --git a/github-clone b/github-clone
index ae5adab..da7729a 100755
--- a/github-clone
+++ b/github-clone
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ require 'json'
 
 # Clone all of a user's GitHub repositories.
 class GithubClone
-  attr_accessor :quiet, :use_private_clone_url, :dry_run
+  attr_accessor :quiet, :use_private_clone_url, :use_mirror, :dry_run
   attr_reader :username
 
   def initialize(username)
     @username = username
     @quiet = false
     @use_private_clone_url = false
+    @use_mirror = false
     @github_user = nil
     @github_token = nil
     @use_basic_auth = false
@@ -21,14 +22,26 @@ class GithubClone
   def clone_new_repositories
     determine_github_config
     clone_repositories.each do |name, clone_url|
+      cmd = "git clone";
+      if use_mirror
+        name = name + ".git"
+        cmd = cmd + " --mirror"
+      end
+      cmd = "#{cmd} #{clone_url}"
+
       if File.exist?(name)
-        feedback "Already exists: #{name} for #{clone_url}"
-        next
+        if use_mirror
+          cmd = "git --git-dir=#{name} fetch --tags"
+        else
+          feedback "Already exists: #{name} for #{clone_url}"
+          next
+        end
       end
+
       if dry_run
-        feedback "Would clone #{name}: #{clone_url}"
+        feedback "Would do #{cmd}"
       else
-        execute_cmd "git clone #{clone_url}"
+        execute_cmd cmd
       end
     end
   end
@@ -102,7 +115,7 @@ github.user was not defined, so only fetching public repositories. For more info
     if @use_basic_auth
       headers[:http_basic_authentication] = [@github_user, @github_token]
     end
-    json = open(url, headers).read
+    json = URI.open(url, headers).read
     JSON.parse(json)
   end
 
@@ -143,7 +156,7 @@ username = ARGV.shift
 if %w[-h --help help].include? username or username.to_s == ''
   puts <<-EOS
 Syntax:
-  github-clone <Username> [ -q ] [ --public | --private ]
+  github-clone <Username> [ -q ] [ --dry-run ] [ --public | --private ] [ --mirror ]
 
 This will clone all repositories of <Username> into separate directories inside the current directory.
 When run we check if the git configuration github.user is set. If it is the same as <Username>, 
@@ -154,6 +167,7 @@ Parameters:
   <Username> is your github username.
   -q                  Run github-clone in quiet mode, suppressing all output.
   --public, --private Use public or private clone URL. Defaults to use public.
+  --mirror            Clone with --mirror to bare repository. Will also update with "git fetch" if already exists.
   --dry-run           Only fetch a list of repositories and print it, but do not actually clone them.
   EOS
   exit
@@ -169,6 +183,8 @@ while option = ARGV.shift
     gh.use_private_clone_url = false
   when '--private'
     gh.use_private_clone_url = true
+  when '--mirror'
+    gh.use_mirror = true
   when '--dry-run'
     gh.dry_run = true
     gh.quiet = false