Label at organization level > Push new labels to existing repos

[adriens]

❔ Context

Actually when we create a label at the organization level, it is only available for newly created repos...

👉 but is not available of repos existing before the label creation... hence forcing us to do it manually on all the already existing.

🙏 Feature request

Even if it is documented on GH cf :

☝️ Would it be possible to make newly created label at org level available for all repos ❔

[adriens]

For now, we have a workaround thanks to cli/cli#5452 cf GitHub CLI 2.9.0

[Gnangom]

This site is an working place
How it works

[adriens]

Workaround with cli/cli commands : https://dev.to/adriens/github-cli-v290-is-out-clone-labels-feature-5452-is-here-3odk

[philmod-h]

@adriens How do you clone the labels from the organization to a repository?

[adriens]

If the repo does not yet exist just create labels at the org level then create the repo so it will inherit them

[philmod-h]

In my case, the repository already exists, I added the label to the org, how could I sync these labels from the org to the existing repo?

[adriens]

If if it's just for one repo, I would consider doing it manually or through gh cli commands. Then add labels to your org so you will inherit them in the future. If you have many repos i nwhich to add labels, I would probably write a dummy script around gh cli command to do the job on each repo