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gavinr / github-csv-tools

Import and export GitHub issues via CSV
https://npmjs.com/github-csv-tools
MIT License
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Include first comment in CSV export #14

Closed ad-si closed 4 years ago

ad-si commented 4 years ago

I understand that exporting the whole conversation thread of an issue is probably too complicated, but it would be cool if at least the first comment could be exported, as it mostly acts as the body of the issue. Would you be willing to include this? Really helpful tool, btw. Thanks for building it!

gavinr commented 4 years ago

@ad-si You're welcome.

I do think adding the initial "first comment" to the default export would be useful.

Have you tried the --exportComments option?

ad-si commented 4 years ago

Oh damn, I checked out the --help page, but somehow I overlooked the --exportComments section 🙈. Quite useful, but the resulting format will be hard to import into other tools. So I guess an option to treat the first comment as the body would still be useful. My usecase is to import all GitHub issues into Redmine. So I just care about the issue and the body to get a gist of the issue. For details they can go back to the original GitHub issue. (Actually this would also be another useful field: The URL to the original GitHub issue)

gavinr commented 4 years ago

New in v1.0.2: body is now included in the export, and you can now specify the output attribute columns using --exportAttributes - more info in the updated readme.

ad-si commented 4 years ago

Awesome, thanks!