stephencelis/ghi

Support searching for issues

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#146 opened on Feb 11, 2014

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Description

On popular repositories that have thousands of issues ghi list | grep <foo> is too slow. Please support the use of the GitHub search API to search for issues matching a regular expression or plain text, whatever the API supports.

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Research direction
Explore the GitHub Search API to allow searching issues by text or regex, and integrate it into the ghi command line tool, replacing the current grep based approach.
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Half day
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
GitRuby
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
65