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shirish
shirish

Reputation: 477

how to change/modify title of an issue when you learn more about the issue/underlying issue itself.

I made a generic title while making a github issue. While trying to explain the issue, I discovered some more details underneath which I could add to the title to explain to the developer better.

I tried to change the title but wasn't able to do that, can modify the body of the message but not the title apparently :(

I tried using [github] modify title or modify heading and few other keywords but couldn't find anything in stackoverflow.com

I even re-read https://guides.github.com/features/issues/ just to see if I missed something when I had read it few years ago.

Looking to know.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 568

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329032

Update 2021: you can also use the GitHub CLI gh, instead of curl.

2018:
Considering the GitHub API for Issues does include an "edit issue" which does allow for the title to be modified, this should be possible.

Try (using an OAuth token as shown here):

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer <your OAuth token>' \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json-patch+json" \
     -H "Accept: application/json" \
     -X PATCH \
     https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/issues/:number \
--data '[{ "title": "a new title" }]'

Or:

curl --request PATCH -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/issues/:number \
 --data '[{ "title": "a new title" }]'

Upvotes: 0

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