clone_and_add_forks

Clones your fork of a repository as the origin remote, adds the original repository as the upstream remote, and then adds all (or some) forks of the original repository as remotes, named as the fork owner's username. This essentially mirrors the entire "Network Graph" locally.

Usage

python clone_and_add_forks.py <repo_url> <username> [num_forks]

Where:

• <repo_url>: The full URL of the upstream GitHub repository (e.g., https://github.com/owner/repo)
• <username>: Your GitHub username (the owner of the origin fork you want to clone)
• [num_forks]: Optional. Number of forks to add (default: ~30, use 'all' for all forks)

Example

λ python clone_and_add_forks\clone_and_add_forks.py https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git endolith 8
Cloning repository from https://github.com/endolith/Hello-World.git

Cloning into 'Hello-World'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7, done.
remote: Total 7 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 7 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Adding upstream remote https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git
remote: Enumerating objects: 6, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 5 (from 1)
Unpacking objects: 100% (6/6), 898 bytes | 2.00 KiB/s, done.
From https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World
 * [new branch]      master          -> upstream/master
 * [new branch]      octocat-patch-1 -> upstream/octocat-patch-1
 * [new branch]      test            -> upstream/test

Repository has 2485 forks total.
Fetching up to 8 forks...
Adding remote for fork owned by palvevaibhav: https://github.com/palvevaibhav/Hello-World.git
Adding remote for fork owned by sirflyzoner76zzz: https://github.com/sirflyzoner76zzz/Hello-World.git
Adding remote for fork owned by ruizseh: https://github.com/ruizseh/Hello-World.git
Adding remote for fork owned by n0orw: https://github.com/n0orw/Hello-wor.git
Adding remote for fork owned by RamsesAupart: https://github.com/RamsesAupart/Hello-World.git
Adding remote for fork owned by idforclass: https://github.com/idforclass/Hello-World.git
Skipping endolith (already exists)
Adding remote for fork owned by clementjue: https://github.com/clementjue/Hello-World.git
Processed 8 forks (7 added, 1 skipped).