The number of Github repositories that I end up maintaining in one way or another ends up growing week by week. And keeping all of the descriptions and settings up to date in sync can be painful todo by hand.
A little while ago I migrated my addwiki project to use a monorepo, and thus needed to bulk update all of the github repository descriptions. While doing so I made use of the github cli and created a single bash script to let me configure all of the repositories at once.
Assuming you already have the github cli install and configured getting started with this is easy.
The command
The below command is one of many in my bash script for repo configuration. This sets a description, homepage and various other flags that I want to be consistent across repositories.
gh api --method PATCH repos/addwiki/addwiki \
--field description='Monorepo containing all addwiki libraries, packages and applications'\
--field homepage='https://addwiki.github.io/'\
--field has_issues='true'\
--field has_projects='false'\
--field has_wiki='false'Code language: JavaScript (javascript)