github_repo

github_repo

Library to enable automation of common github repository tasks. This library is a response to some problems I had getting Octopi to work correctly for repository tasks. I use the Octopi API in some cases, but implement my own Http post calls in most cases.

Rename

Renames a github repo

Rename [old-name] [new-name]

1. Deletes any existing github repository [new-name] (if overwrite option)
2. Creates a new repository called [new-name]
3. Clones the github repository [old-name] locally
4. Deletes the github repository [old-name]
5. Changes origin of the local [old-name] repository to point to the github repository [new-name]
6. Push the local repository to the github repository [new-name]
7. Makes sure the github repository [old-name] was deleted!
8. If the repository [new-name] exists, delete the local repo (only if option set to do so!)

Note: Currently this task contains a lot of code to retry when things go wrong some some reason. The github API is still pretty unstable! And suffers from some timeout and caching issues, which requires a lot of care and exception handling! Feel free to improve it!

Other Github tasks

• Delete
• Create
• Get clone url
• Clone
• Fork
• Collaborators
• Languages
• Tags
• Branches
• First commit
• First origin push
• Init repository

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Kristian Mandrup. See LICENSE for details.