owenthereal/gh

gh fork Enhancements

rdegges opened this issue · 4 comments

rdegges commented

It'd be really nice to be able to use fork as follows:

$ gh fork rdegges/someproject

And have the fork command not only initialize a Github fork, but also clone the forked repo down locally, and setup the upstream remote automatically.

Thoughts?

owenthereal commented

The tricky part is fork is done asynchronously. Are we going to hang the command if the repo is not ready to clone?

A more command workflow is you clone the repo you want to fork and run gh fork which adds the forked repo as remote.

rdegges commented

hmm, I understand it's async, but as a user I'd sort of expect the behavior described above -- adding a remove makes sense -- but why not sleep for a few seconds and poll? Would make for a way better developer experience, IMO.

Feel free to ignore, btw! Huge fan of this project. Just thought it'd be a nice touch ^^

owenthereal commented

but why not sleep for a few seconds and poll

This is doable and I'd love to make it happen. I do care about developer experience 😸. And thanks for the support of the project.

Note that moving forward gh will be known as hub 2.0 and future changes will be in that repo. I'll keep this issue as a reference in the future.

rdegges commented

Awesome! ^^