copy-issue-labels github action

Motivation for creating this action was to copy labels from linked issues to the issue / PR which triggered the workflow.

Example workflow

This workflow will copy labels from any linked issue for the opened PR.

Github issues can link other issues and this linking is done automatically whenever PR mentions one of the keywords for automated workflows. See documentation

on: 
  pull_request:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  copy-labels:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Copy labels from linked issues
    steps:
      - name: copy-labels
        uses: michalvankodev/[email protected]
        with:
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

There is also support for different workflows to trigger sync of the labels with issue-number parameter

    steps:
      - name: copy-labels
        uses: michalvankodev/[email protected]
        with:
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          issue-number: ${{ github.event.inputs.issue }}

Custom keywords

You can provide custom keywords which will be picked up by the parser.

These keywords will not override github specified keywords.

steps:
  - name: copy-labels
    uses: michalvankodev/[email protected]
    with:
      repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      custom-keywords: |
        solves
        references

Parse from title

You can provide from-title = true to parse the issue numbers from title

steps:
  - name: copy-labels
    uses: michalvankodev/[email protected]
    with:
      repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      from-title: true

Include-Exclude labels

You can provide an inclusion/exclusion list to filter linked issue labels before copying them to the PR

steps:
  - name: copy-labels
    uses: michalvankodev/[email protected]
    with:
      repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      labels-to-include: |
        documentation
        enhancement
      labels-to-exclude: |
        untriaged
        triaged

Development

The deployed code is stored in the repository as that's how github action runner is able to run the action with runners.

1. Don't forget to first build the action before releasing new version npm run build

2. Commit

3. Create a new git tag: git tag -a -m "Feature added" v1.x.y

4. Publish git push --follow-tags