How do I manage forks in Stash?

[Aleksey Maksimov]

Hi,

I know that some users created forks of repositories, but there is no way for admin to find out which repos are forked and there is no way to find who forked what.

The reason that I want to do that is that I may want to purge or archive abandoned/stale forks.

It would be nice to have a view on forks.

Thanks!

Aleksey Maksimov

[Michael Heemskerk]

Stash currently does not have a view that show the forks of a repository, but there are still a few ways you can see the forks for a given repository.

There's a REST endpoint you can use:

GET /rest/api/latest/projects/PROJECT_KEY/repos/repo_slug/forks

The same endpoint is used in the repository selector in the dropdowns in the 'Create Pull Request' dialogue.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Michael

[Larry Shatzer]

Do you plan on adding a "Forks" tab like "Branches" in the future? I've got a very simplistic plugin that does this, but lacks some features and polish, and wanted to know if this was a planned feature to Stash.

[cofarrell]

Hi Larry,

You might be interested in voting for:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/STASH-3531

I suspect it will happen, but it's not on our immediately roadmap.

Charles

[Eric]

@Larry Shatzer Do you have a link to said (fork display) plugin? Any chance it's open source? Was considering writing my own, but if one is already out there, no reason in duplicating.

[Larry Shatzer]

It's not public, nor has it been updated or tested with anything past 2.12 version of Stash. So I'm not even sure it would work any more.