bugrest 1.1.1

Screenshot

Key features

• CLI (works in a terminal)

• Simple text file used as storage (ReStructuredText)

  • Git, Mercurial & co friendly

  • Colorized in the terminal

  • No need to edit the text file by hand

• Automatically detects the “root” folder to use by finding .hg, .svn or other version manager folder in parent directories

• More advanced features not getting in your way if you don’t need them:

  • Priorities

  • Tags

  • Attributes

  • Time tracker (counts the time spent on a given task)

• Web Server allowing real-time read only sharing of the list

• HTML export

• Search tool (grep-like)

Usage

The command line tool is br and works in the current directory. If you don’t like this, feel free to edit br file and change the following lines to absolute paths:

BUGFILE = 'bugs.rst'
DONEFILE = 'fixed_bugs.rst'

List bugs:

br

Add new bug:

br new

Delete bug number 4:

br rm 4

Add one comment:

br add 3

Show full description of current bugs:

br show

Show description of some specific bug:

br show 42

Produce an html report:

br html > bugs.html

Start a web server on port 5555:

br serve

Change priority of item #66 (using bugid instead of item position):

br set #66 priority 10