Github Labels Copy

A tool to copy labels between repositories using Github API

Here are the actions done by this tool:

• Add missing labels
• Modify color for existing labels
• Delete labels not availlable in source repository

It can be used with either login/password or API Key.

Installation

You can install it using pip:

$ pip install githublabelscopy

Usage

To copy labels between two repositories:

$ github-labels-copy myuser/source-repo myuser/target-repo

There is also two identification modes:

• --login : using your Github username, you will be prompted for your password
• --token : provide your Github token

Alternatively you can set an environment variable called GITHUB_API_TOKEN. Without any identification mode specified, it will automatically fallback on it.

You can also dump/load labels:

• --load : load labels from a previous dump (yaml file)
• --dump : dump labels into a yaml file

Options

There are 3 non exclusive modes:

• -c : creates labels which don't exist on target repository
• -r : remove labels on target repository which don't exists on source repository
• -m : modify labels which don't have the right color code on target repository

Default is full mode, which execute all those actions.