my misunderstanding of the CLI corrupted my assignee file #106
Description
Hi folks, i'm evaluating git-issue for use in a small team of developers, and i ran in to a paper-cut-level problem. I tried adding and removing assignees to an issue, and that worked as expected:
$ PAGER='' git issue show c9cd471
issue c9cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1
Author: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@scytherobotics.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:02:16 -0600
Tags: open
figure out "git issue assign"
It seems to be possible to assign issues to email addresses
$ git issue assign c9cd471 seb@
Added assignee seb@
$ PAGER='' git issue show c9cd471
issue c9cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1
Author: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@scytherobotics.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:02:16 -0600
Tags: open
Assigned-to: s
A345
eb@
figure out "git issue assign"
It seems to be possible to assign issues to email addresses
$ cat .issues/issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/assignee
seb@
So far so good, but i misunderstood/misremembered the order of the command-line arguments for removing an assignee, and it corrupted the .assign file of the issue i was working with:
$ git issue assign c9cd471 -r seb@ # <== THIS IS WRONG!
Added assignee -r
Entry seb@ already exists
$ cat .issues/issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/assignee
-r
seb@
$ PAGER='' git issue show c9cd471
issue c9cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1
Author: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@scytherobotics.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:02:16 -0600
Tags: open
Assigned-to: -r
seb@
figure out "git issue assign"
It seems to be possible to assign issues to email addresses
I re-read the manpage and tried to remove the bogus assignee named -r , and this is where everything went wrong:
$ git issue assign -r c9cd471 -r # <== THIS BREAKS!
grep: issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/assignee.new: input file is also the output
grep: .git/objects/69/9323e086a065eec8707e5137e81e223786ad87: binary file matches
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Removed assignee -r
$ PAGER='' git issue show c9cd471
issue c9cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1
Author: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@scytherobotics.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:02:16 -0600
Tags: open
Assigned-to: issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/assignee:-r
issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/assignee:seb@
issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/tags:open
issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/comments/34fe59874b42b97d6dbf86bd65e34eee6262e2aa:I don't
think it bridges with jira, but i don't know if i care about that.
issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/description:figure out "git issue assign"
issues/c9/cd471577a3b4d80ae6b239fe210e0309ae0de1/description:
(dozens of lines of garbage like this truncated)
Since git-issue uses git for its storage it was easy enough to git log in the .issue repo and find the commit where i accidentally added an assignee named -r, and git reset --hard to the commit before that to undo the breakage.
But still, it might be more user-friendly for git-issue to sanitize/validate the command line before using it.