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Transfer Git Hub Issues in Bulk Between Repositories

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This snippet is for when you need to transfer multiple issues from one GitHub repo to another.

First, make sure you’re have Github CLI installed.

in my case I installed it on my mac using:

brew install gh

Then I navigated to the project folder for the repo I wanted to transfer from and ran the following:

gh api -X GET repos/{your-org}/{repo-to-transfer-from}/issues -f pulls=false -f direction=asc -f state=all --jq '.[].number' --paginate | xargs -n 1 -I num gh issue transfer num https://github.com/{your-org}/{repo-to-transfer-to}

This created all the issues from my old repo to my new one in one go. The snippet can be adapted to perform other tasks in bulk using Github CLI – moving PRs for example.