superfork

Fork or sync a repo or user/organization's repos on GitHub to GitHub

Features

• From the command line, you want to fork a repo to a account you control on GitHub

Let's say your GitHub username is mona and you want to fork the repo willf/superfork to your account

superfork mona willf/superfork

• From the command line, you want to sync or fork all of the repos of a user or organization to an account you control on GitHub

Let's say your GitHub username is mona and you want to sync all of the repos of the user willf to your account

superfork mona willf

You can specify multiple users or organizations to sync

superfork mona willf willf2 willf/superfork

Note: To avoid overwhelming GitHub (and thus hitting API limits), this program will only attempt to fork a repo every 30 seconds. If you are syncing a large number of repos, it may take a while to complete.

THe command has the following options:

• --sync: Sync when repository already exists (default)
• --no-sync: Don't sync when repository already exists
• --include-private: Include private repositories (of course, you need to be able to access the private repos)
• --include-forks: Include repositories which were originally forked (default: don't include)
• --include-dot-github: Include .github repository if found (default: don't include)
• --dry-run: Don't actually do anything, but check status of repositories
• --without-sleeping: Don't sleep between requests (default: sleep 30 seconds between fork requests)

Only use --without-sleeping if you just have a few forks to do, otherwise you may hit GitHub (undocumented) API limits.

Installation

This can installed using pipx or uv:

$ pipx install superfork

or

$ uv tool install superfork

Usage

$ superfork --help
Usage: superfork [OPTIONS] TO [SOURCE]...

  [TO]: destination user or organization

  [SOURCE]: source user or organization, or repository (one or more)

  A valid GITHUB_TOKEN must be set in the environment, or in a .env file in
  the current directory, or in a .env file in the user's home directory.

  To get a GITHUB_TOKEN, see https://docs.github.com/en/authentication

Options:
  --sync / --no-sync    Sync when repository already exists  [default: sync]
  --include-private     Include private repositories
  --include-forks       Include repositories which were originally forked
  --include-dot-github  Include .github repository if found
  --dry-run             Do not actually do anything, but check status of repositories
  --without-sleeping    Do not sleep between requests
  --help                Show this message and exit.