Design and skeleton thanks to schacon/git-pulls and b4mboo/git-review.
git-forks
Get info about a GitHub project's forks.
$ git forks update
Retrieving the latest GitHub data...
$ git forks list
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Forks of 'doubleotoo/foo'
Owner Branches Updated
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justintoo 2 01-May-12
rose-compiler 3 27-Apr-12
$ git forks list --reverse
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Forks of 'doubleotoo/foo'
Owner Branches Updated
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rose-compiler 3 27-Apr-12
justintoo 2 01-May-12
$ git forks show justintoo
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Owner : justintoo
Created : 01-May-12
Updated : 01-May-12
Branches : 2
444a867d338cafc0c82d058b458b4fe268fa14d6 master
14178fe5b204c38650de8ddaf5d9fb80aa834e74 foo
$ git forks browse justintoo
> launch web browser to view in GitHub
$ git forks browse justintoo:test-branch
> launch web browser to view in GitHub
$ git forks browse justintoo:c4a8c4aef3814e74f79a1f8a4894618b49ad7486
> launch web browser to view in GitHub
$ git forks fetch
Retrieving the latest GitHub data...
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Fething Git data from fork 'justintoo/foo'
From https://github.com/justintoo/foo
* [new branch] foo -> refs/forks/justintoo/foo/foo
* [new branch] master -> refs/forks/justintoo/foo/master
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Fething Git data from fork 'rose-compiler/foo'
remote: Counting objects: 12, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 7 (delta 1), reused 7 (delta 1)
Unpacking objects: 100% (7/7), done.
From https://github.com/rose-compiler/foo
* [new branch] master -> refs/forks/rose-compiler/master
* [new branch] rosecompiler-rc -> refs/forks/rose-compiler/rosecompiler-rc
$ git forks fetch justintoo
Retrieving the latest GitHub data...
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Fething Git data from fork 'justintoo/foo'
From https://github.com/justintoo/foo
* [new branch] foo -> refs/forks/justintoo/foo
* [new branch] master -> refs/forks/justintoo/master
Configure which forks you are interested in:
$ git forks config list
$ git forks config add justintoo
Added justintoo
$ git forks config add rose-compiler
Added rose-compiler
$ git forks config list
justintoo
rose-compiler
$ git forks config remove rose-compiler
Removed rose-compiler.
$ git forks config get rose-compiler
Installation
To install it via Rubygems, you might need to add Gemcutter to your Rubygems sources:
gem install gemcutter --source http://gemcutter.org
Afterwards simply do:
gem install git-forks
(Prefix with sudo if necessary)