[FEAT]: manage existing repositories

[benkeil]

Describe the need

It is a common use case that the repository already exists and I want to manage it.

Our company has ~5000 repositories, I will not write scripts to import them.

Would it be feasible to split all the features from the resource github_repository out? So I can use data github_repository to reference the existing repo and use something like resource github_repository_configuration_security_and_analysis to manage the security_and_analysis property of the repository?

Example:

data "github_repository" "example" {
  full_name = "hashicorp/terraform"
}

resource "github_repository_configuration_security_and_analysis" {
  repository = data.github_repository.example.id
  advanced_security = {
    status = "enabled"
  }
  ...
}

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[kfcampbell]

Hmm...in theory, that's an attractive proposition to provide as our repo resource is pretty bloated. Completely replacing that resource would be such a breaking change that I think it's a non-starter. That functionality could be added in a non-exclusive way, perhaps.

Specifically with regard to existing repos, have you tried to import these repositories so they're managed by Terraform?

[benkeil]

The repository resource could also stay as it is. And there are 2 ways to configure the repo.

import does not work for my case. The state don’t even exists. I use terraform cdk to read a dynamic configuration.

[felixlut]

This is definitely possible, I managed to make it work for GitHub repository topics in #1845

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[staffanf]

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