diff --git a/bugwarrior/README.rst b/bugwarrior/README.rst
index 062ea0f1f..e684c1673 100644
--- a/bugwarrior/README.rst
+++ b/bugwarrior/README.rst
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ Create a ``~/.bugwarriorrc`` file with the following contents.
   # two because they're spammy or something.
   exclude_repos = project_bar,project_baz
 
+  # Working with a large number of projects, instead of excluding most of them I
+  # can also simply include just a limited set.
+  include_repos = project_foo,project_foz
+
   # Note that login and username can be different.  I can login as me, but
   # scrape issues from an organization's repos.
   login = ralphbean
diff --git a/bugwarrior/services/github.py b/bugwarrior/services/github.py
index ca557ca12..a08d01515 100644
--- a/bugwarrior/services/github.py
+++ b/bugwarrior/services/github.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
         self.auth = (login, password)
 
         self.exclude_repos = []
+        self.include_repos = []
 
         if self.config.has_option(self.target, 'exclude_repos'):
             self.exclude_repos = [
@@ -30,6 +31,13 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
                     .strip().split(',')
             ]
 
+        if self.config.has_option(self.target, 'include_repos'):
+            self.include_repos = [
+                item.strip() for item in
+                self.config.get(self.target, 'include_repos')
+                    .strip().split(',')
+            ]
+
     def _issues(self, tag):
         """ Grab all the issues """
         return [
@@ -70,6 +78,12 @@ def filter_repos(self, repo):
             if repo['name'] in self.exclude_repos:
                 return False
 
+        if self.include_repos:
+            if repo['name'] in self.include_repos:
+                return True
+            else:
+                return False
+
         return True
 
     def issues(self):