renaming a command-line git fork with gh

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Goal: A jenkins pipeline that forks a repo, makes a change, pushes the change and generates a PR from master.

My issue is that since this may run in parallel, I need each fork to have a unique name. The gh command-line tool seems to indicate this is possible with the --remote-name flag, but it's not doing what I'd expect and I don't know if there is another way

My command gh repo fork https://host/team/aws.git --remote=true --clone properly creates a user/aws repo, however gh repo fork https://host/team/aws.git --remote-name=ME-test --clone returns user/aws already exists

Is there another way to achieve a renamed fork?

VonC_6309 · Answer

Check if the GitHub CLI gh 2.5.0 (Feb. 2022) would help with gh repo fork

PR 4886 proposes:

adds the functionality to add a --fork-name flag to specify what the final name of the forked repo should be.

Since the Github API doesn't yet support this automatically via the Fork API, we fork it and later rename it via the Rename API.

This fixes issue 4849.

That command supports creating a fork with a different name.

renaming a command-line git fork with gh

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