zhiyue / github-transfer-script

github-transfer-script

Preparation

0. Optionally create a new organization to transfer your repositories to
1. Create A GitHub Personal Access Token (Settings > Developer Settings > Personal Access Tokens)
2. Clean the repo information so that just the name remains (each name is followed by whitespace, and size/fork info): %s/\s.*$//g

Usage

0. Clone this repository and open up a terminal in the root directory
1. Install bash, curl, & jq and any dependencies if you don't already have them installed
2. pull all repos to repos.txt: bash get_repos.sh repos.txt
3. confirm repos.txt content
4. Set your GitHub Personal Access Token (or password if you insist) as an environment variable named GITHUB_SECRET
5. Execute the program with your username (OWNER) and the name of the new owner (NEWOWNER): bash bulk_transfer_repos.sh OWNER NEWOWNER

Reference project

• github-api-bulk-transfer
• Github List All Repositories in Organization or Personal using REST API

License

All work in this repository is made available under the terms of the AGPLv3 License, a copy of which is provided in the file called License. Copyright J.D. Bean 2019