Tools

Note: This repository is currently in flux, getting rewritten in Rust. Leaving the historical README below and I will remove it once the rewrite is more mature This repository holds a number of scripts to assist in administering and migrating GitHub repositories and Organizations Most deal diredtly with the GitHub API.

Installation

From Binaries

You can find the binaries for your system in the releases section. Download the zip and extract to your file system. You can then use the binary.

From Source

• Install the Rust toolchain. Follow the instructions on their website.
• Clone the code down to your machine
• cargo build

Usage

Use the built in help commands to understand what options are available

$ ./github-tools --help                                                                                                   main  ✱
github-tools 0.1.0
Chris McIntosh <chocrates@github.com>
Suite of tools used for GitHub Organizaton/Repository management

USAGE:
    github-tools --token <TOKEN> <SUBCOMMAND>

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help             Print help information
    -t, --token <TOKEN>    GitHub Personal Access Token with access to Organization or Repositories
    -V, --version          Print version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    consolidate-teams        Consolidates all users in all with access to a repository to the
                                 specified teams in a properties file
    delete-repositories      Delete Repositories contained in csv file
    help                     Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    transfer-repositories    Transfer repositories contained in csv file to new org, including
                                 teams and members NOTE: Team permissions are not maintained and
                                 will be transfered as read See:
                                 https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos#transfer-a-repository

Currently only the transfer-repositories subcommand is complete, usage is as follows:

$ ./github-tools transfer-repositories --help                                                                             main  ✱
github-tools-transfer-repositories
Transfer repositories contained in csv file to new org, including teams and members NOTE: Team
permissions are not maintained and will be transfered as read See:
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos#transfer-a-repository

USAGE:
    github-tools --token <TOKEN> transfer-repositories [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -e, --example
            Prints an example csv file to stdio and then exits This data can be saved and edited to
            create your input file

    -f, --file <FILE>
            Path to CSV file with a single column containing repositories to delete in format
            "owner/repository"

    -h, --help
            Print help information

    -o, --organization <ORGANIZATION>
            Organization in which to transfer the repositories

Note: --token is required in all cases other than help, even for --example

Example Usage:

• Create a CSV containing your repositories. You can utilize the --example command to create a baseline CSV

$ ./github-tools --token $GITHUB_TOKEN transfer-repositories --example > example.csv                                      main  ✱
$ cat example.csv                                                                                                         main  ✱
repository
organization/repository
# Edit the file here to add your repos

• Execute the transfer

$  ./github-tools --token $GITHUB_TOKEN transfer-repositories --file example.csv --organization <target organization>

Getting Help

Currently creating a new issues is the best way to address errors and questions.

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Scripts

• create-repos-from-template
  • Creates repos for a list of users based on a template and gives a team admin access to them
• get-issues
  • Gets issues with the label due-on: todays_date, for example due-on: 2021-04-28
• get-org-invitations
  • Python example of calling the API with requests, gets org invitations
• pygit-auth-refresh
  • PyGit sample that will watch for expired App Tokens and refresh them
• remove-protections
  • Removes branch protections from the default branch for all repos starting with prefix
• search-org-repos
  • Takes in a code search query and finds all repos and collaborators with hits
  • Useful if you need to track down a bunch of repos with data and you need to contact their owners
• transfer-organization
  • Transfers all repos in the file to the new org and opens a PR changing all references from the old org to the new org
• update-branch-protection
  • Adds branch protections to repos specified in the properties.json file
• delete-repositories
  • Takes a CSV file of owner/repo's and deletes them