Sort Forks Action can help to sort forked repos by last updated date to find those most active repos you may get new update from them.
There're two use situations:
- You add the Action in the parent repo to track those active forked repos
- You add the Action in one of your forked repo to track the parent repo and other forked repos
# A workflow config example
name: Test sort forks
on:
# a cron schedule to run periodically
schedule:
- cron: '0 * * * *'
jobs:
test_sort_forks:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: A job to test sort forks
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v1
- name: Sort forks
id: sort
uses: actioncloud/sort-forks-action@master
with:
github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# you need git commit to push the forks data to the folder: .github/actioncloud
- name: Git commit
run: |
# git commit if there's any change
if test -n "$(git status --porcelain 2>/dev/null)"; then
git config --global user.email "idegorepl@gmail.com"
git config --global user.name "ActionCloud Bot"
git add .
git commit -m "Update forks data"
git push
fi
# you can get badge code of ActionCloud viewer App, and click it to view your data
- name: Check output
run: echo '${{ steps.sort.outputs.actioncloud-badge }}'
The Action will store the forked repos data into your repository, and you need a web view page to see the chart. The viewer page is hosted in actioncloud.io
, the url is https://free.actioncloud.io/apps/sort-forks?owner=<your_owner_name>&repo=<your_repo_name>
.
You can put a badge in your README file:
# remember to change the owner_name and repo_name to yours:
[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/ActionCloud%20App-Sort%20Forks-blue)](https://free.actioncloud.io/apps/sort-forks?owner=<owner_name>&repo=<repo_name>)