Easier to fetch Actions org

[hutson]

We are currently using actions-sync to keep our GHES actions org in-sync with the public actions org.

Could we please have a flag that allows us to just sync the entire actions org so that we do not need to enumerate every repository in the actions org?

At the moment our Actions workflow looks like:

name: actions-sync

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      token:
        description: 'Personal access token with repo permissions to GitHub.example.com'
        required: true

jobs:
  actions-org:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, ubuntu-latest]
    steps:
      - name: setup
        run: |
          wget https://github.com/actions/actions-sync/releases/download/v202009231612/gh_202009231612_linux_amd64.tar.gz
          tar -xf gh_202009231612_linux_amd64.tar.gz
      - name: sync
        run: |
          mkdir -p cache
          # can't sync actions/cache, actions/upload-release-asset as it has "been retired and cannot be reused"
          ./bin/actions-sync sync \
            --cache-dir "cache" \
            --destination-token "${{ github.event.inputs.token }}" \
            --destination-url "https://github.example.com" \
            --repo-name-list "\
                              actions/.github,\
                              actions/actions-sync,\
                              actions/add-to-project,\
                              actions/boost-versions,\
                              actions/checkout,\
                              actions/container-action,\
                              actions/container-toolkit-action,\
                              actions/create-release,\
                              actions/delete-package-versions,\
                              actions/deploy-pages,\
                              actions/download-artifact,\
                              actions/example-services,\
                              actions/first-interaction,\
                              actions/github,\
                              actions/github-script,\
                              actions/go-versions,\
                              actions/hello-world-docker-action,\
                              actions/hello-world-javascript-action,\
                              actions/heroku,\
                              actions/http-client,\
                              actions/humans.txt,\
                              actions/javascript-action,\
                              actions/jekyll-build-pages,\
                              actions/labeler,\
                              actions/node-versions,\
                              actions/publish-action,\
                              actions/python-versions,\
                              actions/runner,\
                              actions/setup-dotnet,\
                              actions/setup-elixir,\
                              actions/setup-go,\
                              actions/setup-haskell,\
                              actions/setup-java,\
                              actions/setup-node,\
                              actions/setup-python,\
                              actions/setup-ruby,\
                              actions/stale,\
                              actions/starter-workflows,\
                              actions/toolkit,\
                              actions/typescript-action,\
                              actions/upload-artifact,\
                              actions/versions-package-tools,\
                              actions/virtual-environments,\
                              actions/virtual-environments-packages"

[ajaykn]

@hutson Thanks for raising the issue. Will be adding to backlog and also keep this issue open to track for more upvotes.

Currently we can fetch list of repos from an organization using github Api.
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos#list-organization-repositories

And may be in your workflow, pass the result to -repo-name-list. Does that work in your case ?

[AdrianDsg]

Hi @ajaykn,
Unfortunately I couldn't find the backlog you mentioned. I assume it's likely a internal board at GitHub Inc. I'd be very grateful if could share a short update on the current state of this issue.

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.

[AdrianDsg]

Hi @ajaykn,
Are there any news on this?