Making bulk repository changes

Sometimes, making administrative modifications in GitHub can be unduly challenging, especially when managing branch protections, permissions, and repository features. Additionally, several minor adjustments should be straightforward but prove difficult or slow to do so through a UI. By harnessing the capabilities of actions and our scalability feature, we can devise methods to synchronize permissions across repositories or retrieve information swiftly.

This section will review two workflows that everyone will use: adding permissions to all repositories you target and adding branch protection. Let’s look at both of these workflows in detail in the following sections.

Adding permissions to all repositories

We will leverage the topic query action in this segment to pinpoint the user-targeted repositories requiring modifications. While our current approach utilizes the topic query action, it’s worth noting that this method can be conveniently...