mashabow / issue-duplicator-action

GitHub Action to duplicate an issue with assignees, labels, milestone, and GitHub project custom fields

Issue Duplicator

With this GitHub Action, you can duplicate an issue with /duplicate issue comment. It creates a duplicated issue in the same repository with these copied properties:

• Title
• Body
• Assignees
• Labels
• Milestone
• GitHub projects (including their custom fields)

Note that the following properties are not copied from the original issue:

• Author
• Comments
• State (open or closed)
• Locked or not

For details, please read this blog post (in Japanese):

• GitHub の issue をまるっと複製する GitHub Action「Issue Duplicator」を自作した - Feedforce Developer Blog

Usage

Add .github/workflows/issue-duplicator.yml to your repository:

name: Issue Duplicator

on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created, edited]

jobs:
  run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: mashabow/issue-duplicator-action@v1
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.ISSUE_DUPLICATOR_PAT }}

Input

• github-token (required): a personal access token with repo and project scopes.

Development

Manual testing

For manual testing against your development branch, you can use this workflow in another repository:

name: Issue Duplicator (dev)

on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created, edited]

jobs:
  run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          repository: mashabow/issue-duplicator-action
          ref: your-development-branch
      - name: Install
        run: npm ci
      - name: Build
        run: npm run build
      - uses: ./
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.ISSUE_DUPLICATOR_PAT }}

Publish

To publish a new version of this action, create a release on GitHub. Then the following stuff are automatically done with JasonEtco/build-and-tag-action.

1. Build this action.
2. Commit action.yml and the built file.
3. Push the commit with version tags.