Recently, I found myself needing to incorporate a CODEOWNERS-file to multiple repositories within our Github organization. The objective was to automatically reviewers for pull-requests. And codeowners are a perfect tool for this. This way every colleague in our company can join our Github organization and get write-access to the …

As someone who frequently works with both GitHub and GitLab repositories, I often find the need to get an overview of various projects that exist within an organization or group. At my workplace, we use GitLab’s group- and subgroup functionality to organize our team-specific and customer-specific structures.

Recently, I …

Often times I find a interesting or useful project on Github that is abandoned and has some issues. Then I hope that someone already forked the repository and continued working on it. To find a fresh fork, I had to go to the Insights-tab in the repository, click on “Forks …

As part of my job I routinely create new Github repositories for my colleagues. One unfortunate side-effect is that I am automatically subscribed to all those repositories and get mails for any new issues, pull requests and so on.

This culminated in hundreds of mails over the weekend when we …

I needed to create multiple Github repositories and grant access to them for different users. After creating the first repository by hand and granting access to it, I had enough of it. There are just too many damn clicks!

So I used the CLI. Github has a nice cli-program called …