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yarikoptic merged 4 commits into from
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Disable GitHub Actions on forks by default #6

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Disable GitHub Actions on fork after successful gh repo fork
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Improve fork detection by extracting repo path from fork remote URL
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Improve sed readability with separate -e flags
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion common.sh
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Expand Up @@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ fi
# by grep on github.com/ we would skip ssh ones
if git fetch -v 2>&1 | grep -q github.com/; then
if ! git remote | grep -q "$ghremote" ; then
if ! GH_TOKEN="$GITHUB_TOKEN" gh repo fork --remote --remote-name "$ghremote"; then
if GH_TOKEN="$GITHUB_TOKEN" gh repo fork --remote --remote-name "$ghremote"; then
# disable actions in the fork -- we just want to provide contributions upstream
fork_repo=$(git remote get-url "$ghremote" | sed -e 's|.*github.com[:/]||' -e 's|\.git$||')
GH_TOKEN="$GITHUB_TOKEN" gh api -X PUT "repos/$fork_repo/actions/permissions" -F enabled=false || \
echo "WARNING: Failed to disable actions on fork $fork_repo" >&2
else
echo "errored out, sleeping, trying to fetch"
sleep 2
git fetch "$ghremote"
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