forkizard

forkizard

A wizard for comparing GitHub forks.

Will become useless once GitHub displays the number of ahead/behind commits on the Forks page!

Problem

StackOverflow: How to determine which forks on GitHub are ahead?

Solution

Since there does not seem to be an API for that, we scrape the info message of each GitHub fork.

Usage

Build with go build and run forkizard org/repo:

$ ./forkizard k0kubun/pp
2019/06/20 16:27:35 44 forks
 44 / 44 [===============================================================================================================================] 100.00% 32s
done
/wtertius/pp       +6 -3
/hbbio/pp          +5 -3
/quanticko/pp      +2 -12
/federico-bollo/pp +1 -12
/juntaki/pp        +1 -12
/sniperkit/pp      +1 -12
/yudai/pp          +4 -39
/wangkechun/pp     +2 -57

Building with Docker

To build without installing golang, run:

bin/build

Bugs

Current version might not compare subforks well.

About

Written in #Go by @hbbio and released under the MIT license.