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Allow label renaming #59

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larsks opened this issue May 27, 2021 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #68
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Allow label renaming #59

larsks opened this issue May 27, 2021 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #68

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larsks commented May 27, 2021

If I have a label bug and I would like it to be type: bug, I wish I could do something like this:

- name: "type: bug"
  alias: "bug"

And then label-syncer would:

  • Create a new label type: bug if no label named either type: bug or bug exists, or
  • Rename an existing label bug to be type: bug

This would make it much easier to make a set of existing repositories consistent.
@larsks larsks changed the title Allow label realting Allow label renaming May 27, 2021
larsks added a commit to larsks/action-label-syncer that referenced this issue May 27, 2021
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Allow label renaming
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Introduce the "alias" attribute for labels so that label-syncer can
rename labels, rather than deleting/re-creating them. This preserves
labels on existing issues and pull requests.

Closes micnncim#59
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larsks added a commit to larsks/action-label-syncer that referenced this issue May 27, 2021
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Allow label renaming
d7b9074 
Introduce the "alias" attribute for labels so that label-syncer can
rename labels, rather than deleting/re-creating them. This preserves
labels on existing issues and pull requests.

Closes micnncim#59
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I found it necessary to extend this original idea a bit. To support a single config to get multiple, divergent repos using the same labels, I need support for multiple aliases for some:

- name: "Type: bug"
  aliases:
    - bug
    - defect
  description: Something isn't working
  color: d73a4a

I think we should support both syntaxes (single alias and multiple). But having support for either a string or an array of them in the parser seems to require two different field names (alias as a string, and aliases for an array of strings).

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