Tisú

Tisú [tiˈsu, tissue in spanish] allows to manage your project's issue tracker, using a single text file. It support Github or Jira.

Install

You can use uvx directly

$ uvx tisu --help

To install it permanently,

$ uv tool install tisu

If you want to use it to manage jira issues,

$ uv tool install tisu[jira]

Usage

Tisú can import and export your issues using a simple markdown file, where each section is a different issue.

# issue title

issue body

If an issue already exists in your tracker, the number is a prefix in the title, wrapped by square brackets:

# [#1] issue title

In this case, Tisú will update that issue instead to create a new one.

This is the current command line help:

Tisú: your issue tracker, in a text file

Usage:
  tisu push <markdown_file> [--repo=<repo>] [(--username=<username> [--pass=<pass>]|--token=<token>)]
  tisu pull <markdown_file> [--repo=<repo>] [--state=<state>] [(--username=<username> [--pass=<pass>]|--token=<token>)]

Options:
  -h --help                 Show this screen.
  --version                 Show version.
  --repo=<repo>             Github repo (as: user/name). [default: inferred from git remote]
  --state=<state>           Filter by issue state [default: open].
  --username=<username>     Github username to send issues. Repo's username if no given.
  --pass=<pass>             Github password. Prompt if user is given and it is not.
  --token=<token>           Personal app token. Default to GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.
                            Get one at https://github.com/settings/tokens

To access private repositories you need a personal access token.

Example

Suppose you want to push a couple of issues like in this TODO.md file.

$ tisu push TODO.md mgaitan/tisu
Github password:
Created #11: support metadata
Created #12: setup travis CI

Result in:

Then, I can pull and overwrite the file.

$ tisu pull TODO.md

This is the result. As in this case I didn't change anything online, the content is (almost) the same, but note that each title has its ID number.

Working with metadata

Tisú can also synchronize the issue's metadata with ease.

The format is :<meta_var>: <value/s>, where <meta_var> is one assignee, labels or milestone. These metadata lines can be in any position under the title (and not neccesarily all, in this order nor all together) and if present, they are removed from the issue's description sent.

For example, create a new issue with some metadata

# Make a video

:assignee: mgaitan
:labels: docs, idea
:milestone: sprint 1

Make an screencast showing how to use Tisú.

If later you want to close this issue, you can add mark it with :state: closed and push.

# [#13] Make a video

:assignee: mgaitan
:labels: docs, idea
:milestone: sprint 1

Make an screencast showing how to use Tisú.

:state: closed

Extra configuration for JIRA project

Since the version 0.3, tisu supports JIRA projects.. Most of the configuration could be set through environment variables.

export JIRA_API_LOGIN=your_login_email    # equivalent to --username
export JIRA_API_TOKEN=your_token          # equivalent to --token
export JIRA_API_SERVER=https://your.jira.server    # equivalent to --server
export JIRA_API_PROJECT=your_project_prefix    # equivalent to --project

If you also use the wonderful jira-cli, then this values will try to be parsed automatically from its config file at ~/.config/.jira/.config.yml