Hub: Add ability to create issues

[bcherny]

$ git issue -m "Add ability to create issues" -t enhancement -t feature-request
https://github.com/github/hub/issues/893

[patcon]

This is probably what you want: https://github.com/stephencelis/ghi

[bcherny]

@patcon that's pretty cool, but shouldn't issues be included in hub core?

[patcon]

well if you create issues, then you probably want a way to label/open/close/assign etc, and it quickly turns into something you might just want a special tool for :)

Meh. I find ghi suits me just fine

[bcherny]

the thing is, hub already supports some of those features for pull requests. it should at least support those same features for issues.

[patcon]

It actually doesn't do any of those things -- just creation of PRs, which happens to involve a deprecated feature to create them from issues :)

[bcherny]

Well it does support the opening part :) the ability to open issues (no labels or assignees) would be helpful.

[mislav]

This is on our roadmap but it's not our foremost priority right now. We're first going to improve the browse, release, and pull-request commands.

I'm closing because we're already tracking this feature and I need to clean up our issue tracker. Thanks for the suggestion!

[hryamzik]

371 seems to be related

[mislav]

hub issue create functionality is now merged to master!

[fuchao2012]

find it : https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/commands/issue.go#L19

@mislav issue create is cool. Do we have a help list like below?

usage: ghi [--version] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--help] <command> [<args>]
           [ -- [<user>/]<repo>]

The most commonly used ghi commands are:
   list        List your issues (or a repository's)
   show        Show an issue's details
   open        Open (or reopen) an issue
   close       Close an issue
   lock        Lock an issue's conversation, limiting it to collaborators
   unlock      Unlock an issue's conversation, opening it to all viewers
   edit        Modify an existing issue
   comment     Leave a comment on an issue
   label       Create, list, modify, or delete labels
   assign      Assign an issue to yourself (or someone else)
   milestone   Manage project milestones
   status      Determine whether or not issues are enabled for this repo
   enable      Enable issues for the current repo
   disable     Disable issues for the current repo

See 'ghi help <command>' for more information on a specific command.

ps. how to call it out ? ⬇️ ？

hub issue --help

[mislav]

@fuchao2012 You can use hub help --issue for more expanded documentation.

[fuchao2012]

Got it, thanks.
How can i get the full-long desc of this function ?

[mislav]

How can i get the full-long desc of this function ?

What do you mean by "full-long desc" and "this function"?

[thurt]

@mislav your command must be a typo because when i try hub help --issue i get error: unknown option 'issue'

I am using hub 2.2.9

when i try hub issue --help i get:

usage: git issue

List summary of open issues for the project that the "origin" remote points to.

ie. there is no description of the hub issue create command

[mislav]

@thurt Try the latest prerelease version from the Releases section of this repo.

[alphaCTzo7G]

I noticed the the Hub manual doesnt mention anything about the create issues part. https://hub.github.com/hub.1.html

Perhaps this needs to be updated

[alphaCTzo7G]

Is there a way to edit existing issues? I can check issues in the current repo..but dont see that in the man page

It seems there are 2 repos which do provide this functionality: https://github.com/node-gh/gh

and

https://github.com/stephencelis/ghi

Is there a way to use them/merge them into this repo, instead of redoing their work?

[mislav]

@alphaCTzo7G Editing issues isn't supported, although that feature may be coming soon.

The other projects that you referenced are not mergeable in this repo because they have separate codebases. However, nothing is stopping you from using those projects for editing issues until hub gains support for it.

[alphaCTzo7G]

Ok.. I understand.. I am using ghi and hqub now.. Do you think we could have ghi as a dependency of hub? So when I user installs hub, they also install ghi/nh automatically, from the stephencelis/ghi repo? Then ghi is aliased or wrapped to hub, so they get the same functionality of ghi but through hub?

I primarily use ghi, and haven't used nh, but the commands used by ghi don't conflict with that of hub,

list List your issues (or a repository's)
show Show an issue's details
open Open (or reopen) an issue
close Close an issue
lock Lock an issue's conversation, limiting it to collaborators
unlock Unlock an issue's conversation, opening it to all viewers
edit Modify an existing issue
comment Leave a comment on an issue
label Create, list, modify, or delete labels
assign Assign an issue to yourself (or someone else)
milestone Manage project milestones
status Determine whether or not issues are enabled for this repo
enable Enable issues for the current repo
disable Disable issues for the current repo

Both hub and ghi user Ruby.

For users, it would be much simpler to install hub and get all the functionalities. Most people wont discover ghi/nh right away.

This issue has been open since 3 years.. and the functionality is still not there in hub. I understand that you are the only one working on this repo, so it would get the same functionality to users, quicker..