This Python script automatically synchronizes a github user or an organization forked repositories with their upstream parents.
This is how I keep all the repositories forked by the casperjs organization in sync with the original repositories.
Warning: this script is intended for synchronizing read-only repositories, and will basically perform an automatic merge from upstream before actually pushing the modifications. Use with caution.
Create a virtualenv, install pip requirements from requirements.txt.
Set the following environment variables:
GITHUB_USERNAME: your github usernameGITHUB_PASSWORD: your github passwordGITHUB_ORGANIZATION: a target github organization (optional)
$ ./github-sync-upstream
To have it running with no prompting for confirmation (convenient for cronjobs):
$ ./github-sync-upstream --no_interactive
To directly pass env variables to the script (hazardous but convenient for cronjobs):
$ GITHUB_USERNAME=foo GITHUB_PASSWORD=bar /path/to/github-sync-upstream --no_interactive
This script requires Python 2.7+.
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