gitriddance(1)

💖 gitriddance(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for gitriddance — she's a lil command-line queen and she's about to clean house 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

gitriddance — closes all open issues and pull requests 🧹✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gitriddance [comment]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: gitriddance closes all open issues and pull requests on GitHub. periodt. every single one, gone, bye 👋

and like, why would you even want that? well, it's genuinely useful for projects that have their own issue trackers, patch submission systems etc., instead of relying on GitHub's own ones — which, ngl, many of us find to be clumsy, slow, proprietary, and honestly just encouraging of drive-by pull requests of poor quality 😭 like the audacity fr fr

so you run it in a git repository that was cloned from GitHub. it peeks at the origin remote to find the repository on GitHub — that's how it knows where to go 🕵️♀️ Then all open issues and pull requests will have a comment posted to them, and be closed. both things. comment first, then close. iconic behaviour tbh 👑

the text of that comment is either passed as a command-line parameter, or you can configure it by setting core.gitriddance. for example:

git config core.gitriddance "Please submit patches to
http://ikiwiki.info/todo/"

(yeah that's a literal newline in there, she's multi-line, she contains multitudes 💜)

and here's the important bit, bestie, don't skip this: in order for gitriddance to log into GitHub, you need to set GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN to an oath or personal access token 🔑 no token, no login, no riddance. that's just how it is.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

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that's the whole page, no notes 💖 she's short, she's sweet, she closes your issues. main character energy only.

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okay bye bestie, this was the gitriddance(1) page from the Commands manual section — thanks for reading, mwah 🫶💅🌸