Repo Baseline

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every new repo I create needs the same handful of settings: branch protection, required reviews, no force pushes. Setting that up by hand in GitHub’s UI every time is the kind of small, repetitive chore that’s easy to skip, which is exactly when a repo ends up without it. Repo Baseline is a single script that applies it consistently instead.

What it sets

Running scripts/apply-baseline.sh <owner/repo> [check name]... applies a ruleset on the default branch: changes only land through a pull request with at least one approving review, every commit must be signed, force pushes are blocked, and any status checks you pass in must pass before a merge is allowed. It also turns on delete_branch_on_merge, so a PR’s branch is cleaned up automatically once it merges. Re-running the script is safe — if a repo already has the ruleset, it’s backed up locally and updated in place rather than duplicated.

GitHub on Prateek Sharma

Repo Baseline

What it sets