gh-labels

Simple utility to copy labels from one GH repo to another

Works like this:

• Reads all the labels from the source repository
• Deletes all the labels in the target repository
• Clones one by one all the labels from source repository on the target repository

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Executing this program will wipe all labels in the target repository. I take no responsability on any side effects this program can cause to your github repository.

It is strongly suggested to execute on an empty repository to test how it works. Actually this is my use case: only on new repositories that have default GH labels.

Also, I have no idea how it would affect with GH issues which are using labels already. Onre more time: consider this program will wipe all your current labels, before copying the ones from the source repository.

I created this program because I am lazy, and it takes a while to copy/paste one by one (some repositories can have several labels).

Installation

go install github.com/mauleyzaola/gh-labels@latest

Program uses go modules, but should work on older golang versions. I only have tested it to work with go1.3

Usage

gh-labels authenticates with GH Personal Token Access. Make sure you set TOKEN variable in your environment or when executing this program.

GH Token can be generated here: https://github.com/settings/tokens

Only these options are needed for this program to work

Example: Cloning the labels from https://github.com/facebook/react to https://github.com/mauleyzaola/garbage

TOKEN=xxxxx gh-labels \
    -source facebook/react \
    -target mauleyzaola/garbage

Here is asciinema recording of the output: https://asciinema.org/a/9wsdKLCEoIZg0Pj4Y9iNZaCef

TODO

• GH API apparently does not write the description field. Haven't figured it out yet.
• Get all the labels from repositories. Using default 30 labels for the time being.
• Make this program more intelligent (don't wipe all, but just add the missing ones).