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pypm install jira-cli
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Introduction
Simple command line utility to interact with your jira instance.
Installation
with easy_install or pip:
sudo easy_install jira-cli sudo pip install jira-cli
from source:
git clone http://github.com/mig33/jira-cli cd jira-cli python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install
after installation, a few configuration steps will be prompted upon invoking jira-cli for the first time:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli base url for your jira instance (e.g http://issues.apache.org/jira):http://jira.yourdomain.com enter username:ali enter password:*********
The details of your jira instance will be kept in ~/.jira-cli/config and the authentication token will be stored in ~/.jira-cli/auth. Once the authentication token has expired you will be reprompted for your username & password again. Alternatively you can provide the username and password on the command line as:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli --user=ali --password=sekret ...
Usage
A few examples to get started.
create an issue with only a title in project TP with default priority and type Bug:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli -n Bug -t "Test Bug" --priority=Major -p TP link : http://jira.yourdomain.com/browse/TP-24 assignee : summary : Test Bug issue : TP-24 reporter : ali
create an issue with priority Major and a description:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli -n Bug -t "Test Bug" --priority=Major -p TP the description link : http://jira.yourdomain.com/browse/TP-25 assignee : summary : Test Bug issue : TP-25 reporter : ali
list the issue TP-25:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli TP-25 link : http://jira.yourdomain.com/browse/TP-25 assignee : summary : Test Bug issue : TP-25 reporter : ali
list the issues TP-20 & TP-21:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli TP-20 TP-21 link : http://jira.yourdomain.com/browse/TP-20 assignee : ali summary : test issue : TP-20 reporter : ali link : http://jira.yourdomain.com/browse/TP-21 assignee : summary : Test Bug issue : TP-21 reporter : ali
list the issues in short form:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli TP-20 TP-21 TP-22 --oneline TP-20 test < http://jira.yourdomain.com/browse/TP-20 > TP-21 Test Bug < http://jira.yourdomain.com/browse/TP-21 > TP-22 Test Bug < http://jira.yourdomain.com/browse/TP-22 >
add a comment to an existing issue:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli -j TP-20 -c this is a new comment this is a new comment added to TP-20
provide your own formatting:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli TP-20 --format="%reporter, %summary, %status"
free text search for issues:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli --search some random words
list only the comments for an issue:
ali@home ~ $ jira-cli --comments-only TP-20 Thu Nov 10 08:42:55 UTC 2011 ali : this is a new comment Fri Dec 02 00:19:40 UTC 2011 ali : another comment Sat Mar 10 11:08:34 UTC 2012 ali : test comment Sat Mar 10 11:08:51 UTC 2012 ali : another test comment
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