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Cleaning up your GitHub profile

Mehedi Hassan on April 09, 2020

It was a Wednesday afternoon, and I was busy re-organizing somethings on my portfolio. I also wanted to quickly clean-up my GitHub profile at the s...
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Lukasz Gornicki

Design rocks, initiative awesome as I have a bunch of old forks that I'm too lazy to remove manually. But it is super scary to give repo delete rights to an external application I don't control

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Mehedi Hassan

Yep, that's why you can deploy your own instance with your own OAuth app creds :)

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Lukasz Gornicki

Yeap, I love that part of the solution. Great project man. Many people will be happy twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/123... :D

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Camilo

Seems like a nice tool :)

maybe it can be used to move repos to organizations like the method described here dev.to/clsource/declutter-your-git... :D

so the code can be seen if there are any forks or people that would like to take a look.

Thanks !

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Reaper

The UI, is truly impressive.
Though, I guess I found a bug, the public api doesn't seem to be fetching all my repos and only the first 10-20.

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Mehedi Hassan

Hey, thank you! How many repos do you have out of curiosity? I will look into this, and would appreciate if you could share more info on an issue on the github github.com/MehediH/GitCleanup

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Reaper

sure

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Carlos Roso

Good work!

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Mehedi Hassan

Cheers!

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Stephan Miller

Awesome! I need to do this because I fork a lot of repos just to keep them in mind and then forget about them. Not a good plan, lol.

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Nedim F

Amazing, I love the design you used.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

It might be a bad idea to delete an abandoned repo, especially if some watching / starring it.

It is bad idea in general to delete shared something.

Had better "archive."

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Mehedi Hassan

Yep I completely understand that -- I just couldn't think of a better word than "abandoned". In this case I am referring to repos for projects that you never ended up finishing.

Also, regarding "It is bad idea in general to delete shared something," the app shows if a repo has watchers/stars, so I guess that you won't be "knowingly" delete something that's shared.