Tool to streamline content in a Github repository from a spec.
This is part of a blog post on how to administer multiple Github repositories.
Run dotnet tool install -g MBW.Tools.GhStandardContent. After this, gh-standard-content should be in your PATH.
Read more on the blog post about managing standardized content on Github repositories. In short, you need a Github token and a repos.json file which describes your content.
Create a repos.json with the following:
Run the tool with gh-standard-content -t My_Token repos.json to create pull requests on all repositories that are out of date.
Run gh-standard-content --help for more parameters.
{ "content": { // Define as many sets of files as you want "standardContent": { ".gitignore": "standard_content\\.gitignore" }, // Each set can describe multiple files, and where they're located locally "standardDotnetNuget": { // To modify workflow files, you need a special scope: workflow ".github/workflows/dotnet.yml": "standard_content\\dotnet.yml", ".github/workflows/nuget.yml": "standard_content\\nuget.yml", "Directory.Build.props": "standard_content\\Directory.Build.props" } }, "repositories": { // Describe each repository, with a property indicating that a set applies. "LordMike/MBW.Client.BlueRiiotApi": { "standardContent": true, "standardDotnetNuget": true }, ... } }