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Alright. I just learned about Probot yesterday, but I've got a hackathon tomorrow so I will try to take a quick and terrible stab at implementing this.

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I built one here. Feel free to try it out and give it a star 😄 if you like it ^

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Hey everyone, I just remembered that I forgot to give an update on my progress after the hackathon.

The code can be found here: https://github.com/tanelso2/auto-fork-sync and if you want to see how it works, I've been using these repositories to test it: https://github.com/tanelso2/fork-sync-test and https://github.com/MaxBob/fork-sync-test

Feel free to comment, criticize, or open PRs to improve it!

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tanelso2/auto-fork-sync

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tanelso2/fork-sync-test

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MaxBob/fork-sync-test

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It's kinda pathetic that the answer isn't "wow! what a great feature", instead of "everyone should fend for themselves!"

We manage large teams on 3 continents. The fact that we have to perform constant reverse PR's is just stupid after using BitBucket, or get every developer to implement the script on a variety of technologies, most of which are not Linux and most of whom do not have CRON access.

Not my fault that I am forced back into GitHub as I work for a large organization and they dictated it. Just that 1 feature makes paying for BitBucket worth it. We were very upset when them made us move to GitHub, and the primary reason is the attitude that these time saving features are not worth the effort!

Come on! Get this added please!

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I built one here. Feel free to try it out and give it a star. smile

Wei's tool is excellent!

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@wei i can't easily do it in a 10 line script tho, that's the use case for github apps like yours (which i highly enjoy btw): comfort factor.

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@tekdeveloper just try: https://github.com/wei/pull#readme or from the apps page: https://github.com/apps/pull

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wei/pull

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Is there also a similarly neat tool for the opposite use-case: the owner of a repo wanting to observe its network of forks for commits & branches whose authors have (for whatever reason) not started a PR?

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Found some under the topic forks-insight :-) </topic-hijack over> Apologies!

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Yesss! This is a great idea, and definitely possible.

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@tanelso2 good luck! If you want some quick help you can jump into our Slack channel (but of course you'll have more fun hacking away with your team)

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I've also been using pull. Works great, besides the notification spam :D

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@pvinis that's a github problem. if . githbu source code was . open it . could more easily/faster resolvable.

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Would also be cool if github allowed forking complete organizations or accounts.

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What is the use case? It can be done by pulling public repos and forking via API.

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@wei so forking orgas/users as an app? would be awesome

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@ghost i don't see a wide need for this though. It can be done in a cron script in probably under a dozen lines.

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@ghost I would if there was more demand, this is the first case i've heard.

Here you go:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from github import Github

owner = '<Insert org/user>'
g = Github("<Insert Personal Access Token>")

for repo in g.get_organization(owner).get_repos():
  print('Forking ' + owner + '/' + repo.name)
  try: 
    g.get_user().create_fork(repo)
  except Exception as e:
    print(e)

replace get_organization(owner) with get_user(owner) if that's what you want. It's really just 3 lines before the fluff.

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@pvinis that's a github problem. if . githbu source code was . open it . could more easily/faster resolvable.

what?

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A naive implementation that "simply" presents all the forks' new commits (by message, with option to load the diff) that are not already included in a PR, might already be useful.

[…] not be overwhelmed by information for all of them?

An ignore this branch/commit feature would help, like in a spell-checker ;-) One would have to go through the entire list at least once in any case. Like a mergetool making you resolve one conflicted chunk after another.

The github-sort-forks action does a bit of that, and GitHub's /network view goes further, but becomes unwieldy very quickly. Effectively I'm looking for some kind of offspring/relative of those 2 tools.

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