ghd2i is a CLI to create GitHub Issues from GitHub Discussions. This is useful when you want to convert discussions to issues.
ghd2i run [<discussion url> ...]Left: Original Discussion | Right: Created Issue
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ghd2i requires a GitHub Access Token to get discussions and create and edit issues.
Please set the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN.
You can search Discussions using -query option.
is:discussions is added to the query.
ghd2i run -query "repo:suzuki-shunsuke/test-ghd2i is:open"By default, ghd2i run command gets discussion data via GitHub API.
You can dump the data to a data file by ghd2i get-discussion command and pass it to ghd2i run command.
This is useful when you customize and test templates.
# Dump data to a data file
ghd2i get-discussion <discussion url> [<discussion url> ...] > discussion.json
# Pass the data file
ghd2i run -data discussion.json-query is also available.
ghd2i get-discussion -query "repo:suzuki-shunsuke/test-ghd2i is:open" > discussions.jsonExample data
{
"Discussions": [
{
"ID": "D_kwDODTmpTc4APQPc",
"Title": "test",
"Body": "test discussion",
"URL": "https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/test-github-action/discussions/54",
"ClosedAt": "2024-12-02T22:44:10Z",
"CreatedAt": "2022-04-10T01:15:58Z",
"UpdatedAt": "2024-12-02T22:44:27Z",
"AnswerChosenAt": "2022-04-10T01:24:57Z",
"UpvoteCount": 1,
"Repo": {
"Owner": "suzuki-shunsuke",
"Name": "test-github-action"
},
"Author": {
"Login": "suzuki-shunsuke",
"AvatarURL": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13323303?u=afedf0091bfd70a6a79c55f6aca781c94cb862f7\u0026v=4"
},
"Category": {
"Name": "Q\u0026A",
"Emoji": ":pray:"
},
"Comments": [
{
"ID": "DC_kwDODTmpTc4AJrky",
"Body": "test comment",
"URL": "https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/test-github-action/discussions/54#discussioncomment-2537778",
"Author": {
"Login": "suzuki-shunsuke",
"AvatarURL": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13323303?u=afedf0091bfd70a6a79c55f6aca781c94cb862f7\u0026v=4"
},
"CreatedAt": "2022-04-10T01:19:33Z",
"Reactions": {
"👍": {
"Emoji": "👍",
"Count": 1
},
"😕": {
"Emoji": "😕",
"Count": 1
}
},
"Replies": [
{
"ID": "DC_kwDODTmpTc4AJrk2",
"Body": "test reply",
"URL": "https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/test-github-action/discussions/54#discussioncomment-2537782",
"UpvoteCount": 0,
"Reactions": {},
"Author": {
"Login": "suzuki-shunsuke",
"AvatarURL": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13323303?u=afedf0091bfd70a6a79c55f6aca781c94cb862f7\u0026v=4"
},
"CreatedAt": "2022-04-10T01:21:03Z",
"IsAnswer": false,
"IsMinimized": false
}
],
"UpvoteCount": 1,
"IsAnswer": true,
"IsMinimized": false
},
{
"ID": "DC_kwDODTmpTc4AJtD_",
"Body": "test comment 2",
"URL": "https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/test-github-action/discussions/54#discussioncomment-2543871",
"Author": {
"Login": "suzuki-shunsuke",
"AvatarURL": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13323303?u=afedf0091bfd70a6a79c55f6aca781c94cb862f7\u0026v=4"
},
"CreatedAt": "2022-04-11T11:07:27Z",
"Reactions": {},
"Replies": [],
"UpvoteCount": 1,
"IsAnswer": false,
"IsMinimized": false
}
],
"Labels": [
"foo",
"aws/terraform-ci"
],
"Answer": {
"ID": "DC_kwDODTmpTc4AJrky",
"Body": "test comment",
"CreatedAt": "2022-04-10T01:19:33Z",
"UpvoteCount": 1,
"Author": {
"Login": "suzuki-shunsuke",
"AvatarURL": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13323303?u=afedf0091bfd70a6a79c55f6aca781c94cb862f7\u0026v=4"
},
"Reactions": {
"👍": {
"Emoji": "👍",
"Count": 1
},
"😕": {
"Emoji": "😕",
"Count": 1
}
}
},
"Reactions": {},
"Locked": true,
"Closed": true
}
]
}You can customize templates of issue body and issue comments.
Create a configuration file:
ghd2i create-configPlease edit the generated configuration file as you like.
Before creating issues, you can test the configuration by -dry-run option:
ghd2i run -dry-run [-data <data file>] [<discussion url> ...]Configuration file is optional.
By default, if a file \.ghd2i.yaml exists, it's used as a configuration file.
You can also specify the configuration file by -config option.
ghd2i run -config config.yaml <discussion url>Templates are parsed using Go's text/template.
title: A template of issue title. This is parsed using Go's text/template.
issue_template: |
A template of issue body.
This is parsed using Go's text/template.
comment_template: |+
A template of issue comments.
This is parsed using Go's text/template.Each discussion in data is passed to title and issue_template.
Each discussion comment in data is passed to comment_template.
By default, ghd2i closes issues if discussions are closed.
And it locks issues if discussion are locked.
You can change this behaviour using -lock and -close option.
These options accept the following values.
auto(default): closes and locks issues if discussions are closed and locksalways: closes and locks issues definitelynever: never closes and locks issues
e.g.
ghd2i run -lock never -close always <discussion url>After creating issues, ghd2i can close and lock and post a comment to Discussions.
To close and lock discussion, you can use -lock-discussion and -close-discussion options.
ghd2i run -lock-discussion -close-discussionTo post a comment to discussions, you need a configuration file.
discussion_comment_template: |
This discussion is closed and locked because we migrate Discussions to Issues.
{{.Issue.URL}}You can use -label (-l) and -assignee (-a) options.
ghd2i run -l foo -l bar -a suzuki-shunsuke -a octokit -query "repo:suzuki-shunsuke/test-ghd2i is:open"GitHub provides a Web UI to create an issue from a discussion.
But this feature doesn't create issue comments from discussion comments and replies.
So we've developed ghd2i.