Github Organization Tranfer Utilities

These scripts were created (with <3 by ChatGPT!) to help transfer a GH Enterprise org to a GH Teams org.

❗ These scripts can nuke your entire org! Execute with extreme caution!

Prep

0. Install required utils:

   • sudo apt install jq

1. Generate a new API token:

   • Navigate to GitHub's New Personal Access Token page.
   • Enter a note for the token (e.g., "Org Transfer Test Script").
   • Select the repo, admin:org, delete_repo and user scopes.
   • Click "Generate token" at the bottom of the page.
   • Copy the generated token.

2. Save the API token:

   • Open a new file in your text editor and paste the token into the file.
   • Save the file as .token.txt in the same directory as the scripts.

3. Specify the organizations:

   • Open a new file in your text editor.
   • On the first line, enter the name of the old (source) organization.
   • On the second line, enter the name of the new (destination) organization.
   • Save the file as orgs.txt in the same directory as the scripts.

   Please ensure that both organizations exist and that you have the necessary permissions to create and delete repositories in both.

4. Specify the repos:

   • Open a new file in your text editor.
   • Enter the repositories you wish to transfer from the old organization to the new organization. One entry per line.
   • Save the file as repos.txt in the same directory as the scripts.

Scripts:

auth_test.sh - Test authentication stuff

list_repos.sh - Generate origrepos_${ORG}.txt for each org for your modifying pleasure

transfer.sh - Transfer repositories

pbranches.sh - Apply (a staticly defined) protected branch settings to all repos in ${NEW_ORG}, ignoreing those in denylist.txt. Protected branch settings are read from source_pbranch.txt