fork-github-repo 1.0

Fork, clone, add remote and branch a GitHub repo

Fork a GitHub repo, clone that repo to a local directory, add the upstream remote, create an optional feature branch and checkout that branch

Usage

usage: fork-github-repo [-h] [--config CONFIG] url [branch]

Fork a GitHub repo, clone that repo to a local directory, add the upstream
remote, create an optional feature branch and checkout that branch

positional arguments:
  url              GitHub URL of the upstream repo to fork
  branch           Name of the feature branch to create

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --config CONFIG  Filename of the yaml config file (default :
                   ~/.github/fork_github_repo.yaml)

Config

The config file with a default location of ~/.github/fork_github_repo.yaml contains the following settings.

• github_token : The GitHub personal access token with the public_repo scope allowed

• repo_dir : The directory path to the directory containing all your cloned repos. If this isn’t defined, /tmp is used.

Examples

Fork Spoon-Knife

$ fork-github-repo https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife.git
Forked https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife.git to https://github.com/gene1wood/Spoon-Knife.git
Cloned https://github.com/gene1wood/Spoon-Knife.git to /home/gene/code/github.com/gene1wood/Spoon-Knife
Remote "upstream" created for https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife.git
Remote "upstream" fetched

Fork Spoon-Knife and create a feature branch called ‘my-feature’

$ fork-github-repo https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife.git my-feature
Forked https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife.git to https://github.com/gene1wood/Spoon-Knife.git
Cloned https://github.com/gene1wood/Spoon-Knife.git to /home/gene/code/github.com/gene1wood/Spoon-Knife
Remote "upstream" created for https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife.git
Remote "upstream" fetched
Branch "my-feature" created and checked out