Is it possible to define the issue number in GitHub?

Question

I would like to move from Redmine to GitHub by importing my repositories and issues.

In my commits I referenced issues by using issues numbers like #343.

Since issues number are cross project inside Redmine, I would like to change issue id in GitHub to match the same as in Redmine.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Not easily. You create an issue by POSTing to /repos/:owner/:repo/issues. You can set title, body, assignee, milestone, and labels - that's it.

You might want to instead append the Redmine issue number to the GitHub title, like:

Button doesn't click [Redmine #1234]

You could also link to the old issue in the body of the issue.

See the create an issue API documentation for more details.

If that's not good enough, you should know that issue#s are auto-incrementing, so you could keep the number by POSTing them in the correct order, and POSTing and DELETEing throwaway issues for gaps in the sequence.