Fork a GitHub repo, clone that repo to a local directory, add the upstream remote, create an optional feature branch and checkout that branch

Usage

usage: fork-github-repo [-h] [-c CONFIG] url [branch]

Fork a GitHub repo, clone that repo to a local directory, add the upstream
remote, create an optional feature branch and checkout that branch

positional arguments:
  url                   GitHub URL of the upstream repo to fork
  branch                Name of the feature branch to create

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        Filename of the yaml config file (default :
                        ~/.github/fork_github_repo.yaml)

The config file with a default location of
~/.github/fork_github_repo.yaml contains the following settings:

-  github_token : The `GitHub personal access token with the public_repo scope
   allowed.
   https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line/
-  repo_dir : The directory path to the directory containing all your cloned
    repos. If this isn't defined, /tmp is used.

The file is YAML formatted and the contents look like this :

github_token: 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567
repo_dir: ~/Documents/github.com/example/

Config

The config file with a default location of ~/.github/fork_github_repo.yaml contains the following settings.

• github_token : The GitHub personal access token with the public_repo scope allowed
• repo_dir : The directory path to the directory containing all your cloned repos. If this isn't defined, /tmp is used.

Examples

Fork Spoon-Knife

$ fork-github-repo https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife
Forked https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife to git@github.com:gene1wood/Spoon-Knife.git
Cloned git@github.com:gene1wood/Spoon-Knife.git to /path/to/gene1wood/Spoon-Knife
Remote "upstream" created for https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife
Remote "upstream" fetched

Fork Spoon-Knife and create a feature branch called 'my-feature'

$ fork-github-repo https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife my-feature
Forked https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife to git@github.com:gene1wood/Spoon-Knife.git
Cloned git@github.com:gene1wood/Spoon-Knife.git to /path/to/gene1wood/Spoon-Knife
Remote "upstream" created for https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife
Remote "upstream" fetched
Branch "my-feature" created
Branch "my-feature" pushed to origin
Tracking branch "origin/my-feature" setup for branch "my-feature"
Branch "my-feature" checked out