merge-github-fork - Automated git commands for merging forks

Breaking change! >= v2.0.0 runs npm install & npm test to ensure nothing is broken

Install

version 1.1.0 without npm test

npm install [email protected] -g

or latest version running npm test to ensure nothing is broken after merge
(obviously only for node projects that have a passing test suite!)

npm install merge-github-fork -g

or

npm install -g https://github.com/HansHammel/MergeGithubFork.git

manually

#clone someones repo
git clone https://github.com/myghname/somereponame.git
cd somereponame

Usage

merge-github-fork https://github.com/someghname/somereponame.git

or

mgf https://github.com/someghname/somereponame.git#branch

Now (>=v1.1.0) supports urls like owner/repo#branch or git://github.com/owner/repo.git#branch

Internally https://github.com/... urls are used!

Own server urls are not supported!

The script essentially does this:

#merge forkes by gh-url
git remote add someghname https://github.com/someghname/somereponame.git#branch # no branch defaults to master
git fetch someghname
git checkout master
git merge -s recursive -X ignore-all-space someghname/branch # while branch defaults to master
git status # if fails
npm it # >=v2.0.0
git push origin master

TODO

• [ ] add no push option
• [ ] add no test option (for version >2)
• [ ] color
• [ ] target branch