git-maintainer-tools 🧰

Small CLIs for a fork-based OSS maintainer workflow.

Homepage: github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/git-maintainer-tools

Originally extracted from s.infinito.nexus/code, where these helpers started as shell scripts under scripts/git/ before being rewritten in Python and split out as a standalone tool.

Tools 🔧

git-setup-remotes 🌐

Configures a clone for a fork-based workflow and is idempotent.

• origin points at the canonical repository.
• fork points at the maintainer's personal fork.
• main tracks origin/main.
• remote.pushDefault = fork, push.default = current so every git push and every git push -u for a new branch lands on the fork, not on the canonical repo.

Usage:

git-setup-remotes \
  --canonical git@github.com:<org>/<repo>.git \
  --fork git@github.com:<user>/<fork>.git

Both URLs may be provided via environment variables instead (CANONICAL_URL, FORK_URL). If --fork / FORK_URL is not given, the tool reuses an existing fork remote or an existing origin that does not point at canonical (clone-from-fork case).

git-sign-push 🔐

GPG-signs every unpushed commit on the current branch and pushes.

• Refuses to run inside the Claude sandbox (where ~/.gnupg is unreadable) and when the working tree is dirty.
• For a branch with an upstream: git push --force-with-lease after any required re-sign.
• For a branch without upstream: git push -u <remote> where <remote> is resolved from remote.pushDefault (fallback: origin). In a repo configured by git-setup-remotes, this means new branches land on the fork.

Usage:

git-sign-push

Install 📦

From the repo checkout:

pip install .

Or for development:

pip install -e '.[dev]'

Both entry points are registered in pyproject.toml and will be on your $PATH after install.

Sandbox 🏜️

Both CLIs refuse to run when CLAUDE_CODE or CLAUDECODE is set in the environment, because the Claude sandbox blocks .git/config writes (for git-setup-remotes) and access to ~/.gnupg (for git-sign-push). The tools MUST be run by the human operator outside the sandbox.

Author ✍️

Kevin Veen-Birkenbach, veen.world

License 📜

Licensed under the MIT License.