GitHub Copy

Repository contents

The github_copy.py tool allows copying of files from one GitHub repository to another. It also allows calling another script to perform transformations on the files before creating a pull request to send the changes to their new location.

Installation

Currently supports Linux and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

1. Install Python 3
2. Install your GitHub ssh key under ~/.ssh/id_rsa
3. Set your GitHub token with export GITHUB_TOKEN=[YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN]
4. Run make install
5. Add ~/.local/bin to your PATH environment variable: export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

Installation without Internet

On another machine with internet:

Build a bundled version to bundle/github-copy.tar.gz using: make bundle

On target machine:

Extract the tar file and install.

tar zxvf github-copy.tar.gz
cd github-copy/dependencies
pip install * -f ./ --no-index
cd ..
make install
export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

Examples

Example of copying the magefile from "g-*" to "grace-customer*":

python3 -m github-copy --source-prefix=g- --destination-prefix=grace-customer --destination-branch="master" --source-branch="master" --transformer=prefix --transformer-args="--file-prefix=magefile"

Dry-run mode allows viewing what changes would occur without actually changing the remote repositories.

python3 -m github-copy --dry-run --source-prefix=g- --destination-prefix=grace-customer --destination-branch="master" --source-branch="master" --transformer=prefix --transformer-args="--file-prefix=magefile"

The github_copy tool is also capable of running actions from the "/actions" folder in grace-actions (super cool private repository for team members) by specifying the "action" transformer and using grace-actions as the source repository.

python3 -m github-copy --dry-run --source-prefix=grace-actions --destination-prefix=g-grace --destination-branch="development" --source-branch="master" --transformer-args="--request-file ~/request.json" --action-type=ec2

Public domain

This project is in the worldwide public domain. As stated in CONTRIBUTING:

This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.