Script to initialize a snoopy fork of a new top-level repository

scc_init_repo.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

import scc.git
import time

# Create GitHub connection
token = scc.git.get_token()
gh = scc.git.get_github(token)
username = gh.get_user().login
print "Authenticated as %s" % username

# Initialize the local repository
git_repo = gh.git_repo('.')
reponame = git_repo.origin.name

# Fork the repository
print "Forking the %s repository" % str(git_repo.origin)
fork = gh.get_user().create_fork(git_repo.origin.repo)

if fork.name != reponame:
    print "Renaming the repository as %s" % reponame
    fork.edit(reponame)

# Define remote URL for pushing to the fork using the token
forkremote = "https://%s@github.com/%s/%s.git" % (token, username, reponame)
olddefault = fork.default_branch
newdefault = "%s/merge/daily" % olddefault

# Create temporary branch to override default branch
print "Creating tmp branch and updating the default branch"
git_repo.push_branch("HEAD:refs/heads/tmp", forkremote)
time.sleep(5)
fork.edit(reponame, default_branch="tmp")

# Replace main branch by develop/merge/daily
print "Removing remote %s branch" % olddefault
git_repo.push_branch(":refs/heads/%s" % olddefault, forkremote, force=True)
print "Creating %s branch" % newdefault
git_repo.push_branch("HEAD:refs/heads/%s" % newdefault, forkremote, force=True)
time.sleep(5)
print "Changing default branch to %s" % newdefault
fork.edit(reponame, default_branch="%s" % newdefault)

print "Deleting tmp branch"
git_repo.push_branch(":refs/heads/tmp", forkremote)