Find open PRs on your forks

Usually forks are only useful to send PRs. When your open PRs are merged, they should be deleted.

Finding out whether your fork is still needed takes too long (open source repo, go to PRs, look for your PRs).

Refined GitHub should mention your open PRs in:

• your forked repo’s header (perhaps even adding a tab next to the original “Pull requests (0)” tab)
• In the “Delete repo” lightbox (“you have x PRs open” or “no PRs are open, you can delete it”)

Ideally this should check whether there are any branches ahead of source like https://github.com/denis-sokolov/remove-github-forks does, but checking for PRs alone would make this feature a good companion to that CLI tool.

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[loilo]

Wow, I did not find anything about this via search, so I just typed out a whole issue to suggest this feature… but I guess GitHub’s “similar issues” feature got the better of me. 😁

I’m not familiar with the v4 API, but I found a very easy v3 request to get the according PRs using the /search/issues endpoint (example for my fork of mautic/mautic):

https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo:mautic/mautic+is:pr+is:open+author:loilo

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I’d be happy to implement this. The visualization in the header could be like this:

What do you think?

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