github-ensure-file

Ensures a file exists across repos of a user or an org in GitHub.

Setup

npm i github-ensure-file

Provide the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable containing a token with enough permissions to write files to the repositories you'll be working on. You can also use a local .env file to provide that variable.

You can generate a personal access token here.

Usage

github-ensure-file <github-user-or-org> <file-path>

• github-user-or-org: name of the GitHub user or organization
• file-path: path to a local file

How it works

1. It iterates through all the the repositories of the organization
2. It uses <file-path> to check if a file exists in the repository at the same path as the local file
3. Processing
   • If the file does not exist in the repo -> it prompts to create it
   • If the file exists in the repo but its contents are different from the local file -> it prompts to update it
   • If the file exists and has the same content as the local file -> it continues to the next repo

Example

If I wanted to ensure that the file located in this repo at .github/workflows/ci.yml existed in other repos in my user account (@simoneb) at the same path I would do:

github-ensure-file simoneb .github/workflows/ci.yml

Which would give me an output similar to:

File does not exist in simoneb/some-repo, create (y/N)?
File exists in simoneb/another-repo but is different, update (y/N)?