📅 5/27 @ 1pm PT - transfer issues + comments between repositories while retaining authorship, labels, and milestones

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💁🏻 transfer issues + comments between repositories while retaining authorship, labels, and milestones
📅 Wednesday, May 27, 2021
🕐 1:00pm Pacific Time (in your timezone)
🎙️ let me know if you'd like to join
🏷️ Automation

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transfer issues + comments between repositories while retaining authorship, labels, and milestones

This show is a follow up to the idea described at #12 and the show from May 20th where we created a script to copy a repository including issues, comments, milestones, and labels. With the script from last week we will be able to quickly create repositories we can use to test this show's script.

Outline

• Recap the script created in 📅 5/20 @ 1pm PT - copy GitHub repositories with issues, labels, milestones, and assignees #16 and use it to create two repositories for testing: source and target

  • https://github.com/Another-Practice-Organization

  • https://github.com/gr2m/copy-repository

  • https://create-user-to-server-token.netlify.app/ (create tokens using credentials of https://github.com/apps/another-practice-org-tokens)

  • Create test repository for source

    GITHUB_TOKENS=$COPY_REPOSITORY_GITHUB_TOKENS SOURCE_REPO=Another-Practice-Organization/template-issues-source npx copy-repository
    

    Create test repository for target

    GITHUB_TOKENS=$COPY_REPOSITORY_GITHUB_TOKENS SOURCE_REPO=Another-Practice-Organization/template-issues-target npx copy-repository
    

  • Delete test repositories

    octoherd-script-delete-repository \
      -T $GITHUB_TOKEN_DELETE_REPO \
      -R "Another-Practice-Organization/template-issues-source-copy-*" "Another-Practice-Organization/template-issues-target-copy-*"
    

• Transfer all issues source to target
• Make sure the same labels are applied. Create labels that are missing
• Make sure the same milestones are applied. Create Milestones if they are missing

Recording

🤦‍♂️ my mic was muted the whole time

Shownotes

• Find the code at https://github.com/gr2m/transfer-issues/

Preparation

• 30 minute announcement tweet
• start of show tweet
• comment on issue
• recording available tweet

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[gr2m]

🤦🏼 My mic was muted the whole time

here is the video anyway if you are interested: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1037245669

You can find the code from this episode at https://github.com/gr2m/transfer-issues/

I'm not going to archive this repository on YouTube because it's embarrassing ... ugh