poPR: Find potential Pull Requests

I believe it is worthwhile trying to discover more about the [octoverse], even if this only teaches us how little we [have merged].

-- liberally quoted from: Karl Popper's Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)

This tool helps maintainers observe all forks of a given repository. It finds branches that could be sent upstream by their authors, but weren't (for whatever reason). Thus, poPR helps to review forked code, in order to merge or cherry-pick it.

Install & use

git clone https://github.com/katrinleinweber/poPR
cd poPR 
python3 main.py --origin=namespace/repo

The script will find all branches in all forks and prompt you to open GitHub's own comparison page to review the changes with the option to start a PR. This approach aims to keep code complexity and the number of API requests low.

To analyse repositories with many forks faster, create a Personal Access Token with at least the public_repo scope and and pass it with the --PAT= option. However, this should only rarely be necessary, because unlike other tools, poPR waits at each potential PR for your review. Thus, it won't burn its GitHub API allowance as quickly as other tools.

License