Faf

Find Active (Github) Forks.

Usage

gem install faf

Show Github Forks

The forks command shows github forks.

$ faf forks dblock/fue

https://github.com/zacklayton/fue (21 days and 7 hours ago)
https://github.com/lhmzhou/fue (25 days and 4 hours ago)

Limit the number of forks with --max.

$ faf forks --max=3 dblock/slack-gamebot

https://github.com/tarikstafford/slack-gamebot (18 days ago)
https://github.com/dersam/slack-gamebot (30 days and 4 hours ago)
https://github.com/ccadoret/slack-gamebot (50 days and 3 hours ago)

Get Help

faf help

Displays additional options.

Access Tokens

Faf will prompt you for Github credentials and 2FA, if enabled.

$ faf forks dblock/fue
Enter dblock's GitHub password (never stored): ******************
Enter GitHub 2FA code: ******
Token saved to keychain.

The access token will be generated with public_repo scope and stored in the keychain. It can be later deleted from here. You can also skip the prompts and use a previously obtained token with -t or by setting the GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable.

See Creating a Personal Access Token for the Command Line for more information about personal tokens.

Contributing

There are a few feature requests and known issues. Please contribute! See CONTRIBUTING.

Copyright and License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.