CLI tool to delete your old forks.

Fetches your forked GitHub repositories, then prompts for their individual deletion.

Provides additional information about each fork to help inform your decision.

• GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN: required
  • PAT with repo and delete_repo scopes
• GITHUB_HOST: optional
  • default: https://api.github.com
  • override for enterprise users (e.g. https://api.github.company.com)

# install deps
mix deps.get

# dev
GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=$GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN GITHUB_HOST=$GITHUB_HOST iex -S mix

# build
MIX_ENV=prod mix escript.build

# run
GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=$GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN ./fork_cleaner -s

• :skip_with_upstream_prs
  • Automatically skips forks with open pull requests to the upstream repo.
  • Defaults to false.
  • CLI flag: -s or --skip-with-upstream-prs