Readme.md

Usage

Make a new personal access token and give it permissions necessary. If this is just public repos, then public_repo is enough. Make sure you copy this token somewhere safe (eg 1Password, LastPass) since it won't be available once you complete this step.

Then run it.

TOKEN=1234 node index.js --from="org/repo" --to="neworg/repo" --number=1234

index.js

const yargs = require('yargs');
const Octokit = require('@octokit/rest');

async function main() {
  const argv = yargs.options({
    from: {
      required: true,
      type: 'string',
    },
    to: {
      required: true,
      type: 'string',
    },
    number: {
      required: true,
      type: 'number',
    },
  }).argv;

  if (process.env.TOKEN == null) {
    throw new Error('Set TOKEN environment variable to personal access token.');
  }

  const [oldOrg, oldRepo] = argv.from.split('/');
  const [newOrg, newRepo] = argv.to.split('/');

  const octokit = new Octokit({ auth: `token ${process.env.TOKEN}` });

  const oldIssueResponse = await octokit.issues.get({
    owner: oldOrg,
    repo: oldRepo,
    number: argv.number,
  });

  const oldIssue = oldIssueResponse.data;

  const newLabels = oldIssue.labels.map(label => label.name);

  const newBody = `* * *
  This issue was originally created by @${oldIssue.user.login} as ${
    argv.from
  }#${argv.number}.
  * * *

  ${oldIssue.body}`;
  const newIssueResponse = await octokit.issues.create({
    owner: newOrg,
    repo: newRepo,
    title: oldIssue.title,
    body: newBody,
    labels: newLabels,
  });
  const newIssue = newIssueResponse.data;

  const oldIssueBody = `This issue has been moved to ${argv.to}#${
    newIssue.number
  }.`;
  await octokit.issues.createComment({
    owner: oldOrg,
    repo: oldRepo,
    number: argv.number,
    body: oldIssueBody,
  });
  await octokit.issues.update({
    owner: oldOrg,
    repo: oldRepo,
    number: argv.number,
    state: 'closed',
  });
}

main();

package.json

{
  "name": "github-move-issue",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "@octokit/rest": "^16.15.0",
    "yargs": "^13.1.0"
  },
  "prettier": {
    "trailingComma": "es5",
    "tabWidth": 2,
    "semi": true,
    "singleQuote": true
  }
}