GitHappens⚡

Githappens is a powerful and versatile open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to streamline your GitLab workflow.
Whether you're managing one project or several, this tool offers a range of features to make issue and merge request management a breeze.

- ChatGPT

Getting started 🚀

Installation 🔨

Preresequisits

• install python3 (make sure to include pip in install)
• Install glab
• Authorize via glab glab auth login (you will need Gitlab access token)
• pip install inquirer
• pip install requests

Setup

• Clone repository to your local machine to whatever destination you want (just don't delete it later)

Setup configs

• In configs folder copy example files like so: cp configs/templates.json.example configs/templates.json cp configs/config.ini.example configs/config.ini
• In configs.ini you have to paste id of your group in Gitlab to group_id (This is for fetching milestones and epics)
• You can adjust templates now, or play with them later (however, you have to remove comments from json before running the command).

Alias

To run gitHappens script anywhere in filesystem, make sure to create an alias. Add following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc file alias gh='python3 ~/<path-to-githappens-project>/gitHappens.py'

Run source ~/.zshrc or restart terminal.

Usage ⚡

Project selection

• Project selection is made automatically if you run script in same path as your project is located.
• You can specify project id or URL-encoded path as script argument e.g.: --project_id=123456
• If no of steps above happen, program will prompt you with question about project_id

Issue creation for multiple projects at once

This feature is useful if you have to create issue on both backend and frontend project for same thing.

• You can specify list of ids in templates.json file.

...
{
  "name": "Feature issue for API and frontend",
  ...
  "projectIds": [123, 456]
}
...

Milestone selection

Milestone is set to current by default. If you want to pick it manually, pass -m or --milestone flag to the script.

Issue templates

Issue templates are located in configs/templates.json.

Make sure that names of templates are unique

Excluding features

If you don't want to include some settings you use following flags:

• --no_epic - no epic will be selected or prompted
• --no_milestone - no milestone will be selected or prompted

Only issue

If you are in a hurry and want to create issue for later without merge request and branch this flag is for you.

• --only_issue - no merge request nor branch will be created. You can achive same functionality with adding onlyIssue key to templates.json file.

...
{
  "name": "Feature issue for later",
  ...
  "onlyIssue": true
}
...

Open merge request in browser

You can open merge request for current checked out branch in browser with command:

gh open

Git review

You can set default reviewers in templates.json file.

...
{
  "templates": [
    ...
  ],
  ...
  "reviewers": [234, 456, 678]
}
...

To submit merge request into review run command:

gh review

Flag help

If you run just gh (or whatever alias you set) or gh --help you will see all available flags and a short explanation.

Contributing 🫂

Every contributor is welcome. I suggest checking Gitlab's official API documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/merge_requests.html

Donating

Make sure to check this project on OpenPledge.