Synchronise Github Issues

This extension to gh is designed to synchronise issues to/from a Github repository for a local YAML file for faster editing.

I have been using this for bulk creation and reorganisation of issues for project management purposes which I can do much more efficiently in a local file. That means that presently only a limited set of Github's issue functionality is exposed, in particular only the following fields are supported:

• title: the main issue title
• body: that is the first text box
• assignees: a list of Github usernames
• labels: a list of string labels (these are created if they don't exist)

Not yet supported:

• milestones
• comments
• projects

Getting Started

This is an installable Python package, however to be discoverable by gh it must be installed by gh directly using:

$ gh extension install jrs65/gh-sync-issues

The first time the command is run it will construct a virtual environment and install its dependencies into it (primarily ruamel.yaml and pygithub).

The first time you run you'll probably want to pull down any existing issues. That can be done by running

$ gh sync-issues pull issuesfile.yaml

which will try to identify the current repo and pull any existing issues into the issuefile.yaml file. To specify a different source repository, use the --repo option.

After making changes to the file you'll likely want to push the changes back up. This can be done using

$ gh sync-issues push issuesfile.yaml

This will summarise any changes and push them up. To see what would be done without making changes you can use the -n option to do a dry-run.

Example File

- title: A new issue
  body: |-
    This issue will be added.
    When pushed, a number field will be added to this entry.
  assignees: [jrs65]

- number: 8
  title: An issue to update
  body: |-
    Any changed info here will be synced to issue 8 in the repo.
  assignees: []
  labels: [label]