Well the main thing for me is that if you change the numbers, the issue mentions in existing commits will be lost/more confusing. There aren't many but for example this commit:
https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/commit/54acf785209 The commit message is: Add a failing test for geb/issues#395 by adding more test coverage for delegation of waitFor(). On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 4:48 AM jonnybot0 (via GitHub) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > GitHub user jonnybot0 edited a comment on the discussion: Historical issues > > I do think we need to go through the old issues and migrate them to the new > repository. I have read that Geb setup that separate repo as some means of > keeping issue numbers that matched the old CodeHaus Jira system. I suppose > that was to prevent needing to update old issues. > > Bulk transfer is pretty straightforward using the [GitHub > CLI](https://github.com/cli/cli). > > There are about 280 instances of the `issueh` macro. Seems like it should be > a straightforward, if a little bit tedious script to write to go through the > historical issues, transfer them to the new repository, and then update the > `issueh` reference to simply use the new `issue` macro and the new number. > > I used a code generator to bash out something that should do this: > ``` > #!/bin/bash > > # Variables > SOURCE_REPO="source_owner/source_repo" > DEST_REPO="dest_owner/dest_repo" > CODE_DIR="/path/to/your/codebase" > > # List all issues in the source repository > issue_numbers=$(gh issue list -R "$SOURCE_REPO" -s all -L 500 --json number > -q '.[].number') > > # Iterate over each issue number > for old_issue_number in $issue_numbers; do > # Transfer the issue and capture the new issue URL > new_issue_url=$(gh issue transfer "$old_issue_number" > "https://github.com/$DEST_REPO"; -R "$SOURCE_REPO" --json url -q '.url') > > # Extract the new issue number from the URL > new_issue_number=$(echo "$new_issue_url" | grep -oP '(?<=/issues/)\d+') > > # Update references in the codebase > if [ -n "$new_issue_number" ]; then > echo "Updating references from issueh:$old_issue_number to > issue:$new_issue_number" > find "$CODE_DIR" -type f -exec sed -i '' > "s/issueh:$old_issue_number/issue:$new_issue_number/g" {} + > else > echo "Failed to transfer issue #$old_issue_number" > fi > done > ``` > > Looks to me like it should work with a little testing. If there are no > objections, I'll go ahead & do that a week from today (after spot-testing an > issue or two). > > GitHub link: > https://github.com/apache/groovy-geb/discussions/229#discussioncomment-11652703 > > ---- > This is an automatically sent email for [email protected]. > To unsubscribe, please send an email to: [email protected] >
