/issue-import

Issue importer for GitHub retaining sequence numbers

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Issue importer to GitHub

The aim of this project is to enable issue imports to an empty GitHub repository retaining issue numbers.

This project uses version 3 of the GitHub API and is licensed under GPL v3 or later.

Be aware that no proper error checking currently in place.

Input

Issues from the data directory are imported. Each issue has 2 files encoded in UTF-8:

  • n.txt containing the issue body
  • n.labels containing the labels line-by-line. If closed appears, then issue will be closed.

Use

  1. install prerequisities
  2. copy config.sample.json as config.json and fill in the fields there
  3. run import-issues.py
  4. enjoy

Prerequisities

  1. clone this repository

  2. place issues under data/ as described above

  3. install python and the folowing modules. Package name for Debian/Ubuntu given in parentheses):

    • requests (python-requests)

  4. acquire a GitHub OAuth token that has write access to the desired repository (choose repo as the scope)