gitea-gt-cli/references/issues.md

Issues, labels, milestones

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Issue management plus repository/organization labels and milestones. gt <cmd> --help is authoritative. Global/repository-selection flags are in SKILL.md.

issue

gt issue <command>
  attachment  close  comment  create  edit  list  move  reopen  timeline  view

issue list aliases issue ls; issue create aliases issue new.

Issue argument: 123, #123, a URL, or OWNER/REPO#123.

JSON fields (issue): assignees, author, body, comments, created_at, due_date, id, kind, labels, milestone, number, ref, state, title, updated_at, url. view/edit add blocked_by, blocks (extra requests, only when named).

Gitea lists pull requests among issues, so most issue commands also accept a PR number.

list

Flag	Meaning
-s, --state {open|closed|all}	default open
-a, --assignee, -A, --author, --mentions	@me for yourself
--no-assignee	only issues without an assignee
-l, --label names, -m, --milestone titles	filters
--kind {issues|pulls|all}	include PRs
-S, --search text	search titles and bodies
--since, --until	updated window (date, timestamp, or duration ago)
-L, --limit n (1..1000, default 30), --page n	pagination
-w, --web	open in browser

gt issue list --label bug --state all
gt issue list --assignee @me --json number,title
gt issue list --kind all --milestone v1.0 | cut -f1,2

create

-t/--title, -b/--body, -F/--body-file file|-, -e/--editor, -a/--assignee login, -l/--label name (prefix repo:/org: to disambiguate), -m/--milestone, -p/--project (repeatable), --ref, --deadline DATE, -T/--template name, --attachment File, -w/--web.

Without flags on a terminal, a form asks for title and body, then optionally assignees, a milestone, labels and a due date. Gitea applies labels/milestone/assignees/deadline only to users with issue write access; otherwise gt reports the left-out fields and fails.

gt issue create --title "Crash on start" --body "Steps..." \
  --label bug --milestone v1.0
gt issue create --template "Bug report"

edit

Adds/removes relative to current values, or replaces with --set-*: --add-label, --remove-label, --set-labels, --add-assignee, --remove-assignee, --set-assignees, -m/--milestone, --remove-milestone, --add-blocked-by, --remove-blocked-by, --add-project, --remove-project, -t/--title, -b/--body, -F/--body-file, -e/--editor, --ref, --deadline. Accepts multiple issues. Without flags on a terminal, a form edits one issue at a time from its current values.

gt issue edit 12 --title "Crash on start" --add-label bug
gt issue edit 12 13 --add-assignee @me --milestone v1.0
gt issue edit 12 --add-blocked-by 9

move

move {<number>|<url>} [to] <column> [--project title] — move an issue to another column of the project board it is on. The column is matched by ID, then name, then ignoring case, spaces and punctuation (in-progress finds "In progress"). Use --project when the issue is on several boards. Organization projects require a token that can write to the organization.

gt issue move 47 to Todo
gt issue move 47 to "In progress"
gt issue move 47 in-progress --project Roadmap

close / reopen / comment / timeline / view / attachment

• close {N}... [-c comment], reopen {N}...
• comment {N} [-b text] [-F file] [-e] [--attachment File] [--edit-last] [--delete-last]; subcommands create|list|view|edit|delete, plus attachment for the files on a comment. JSON: author, body, created_at, id, issue_number, updated_at, url.
• timeline {N} [-L n] [--page n] — comments and changes, oldest first.
• view {N} [-c|--comments] [-w]
• attachment {list|view|upload|download|edit|delete} — files attached to the issue, addressed by the issue number and the attachment ID. JSON: created_at, download_count, id, name, size, url. upload ... [--name NAME], download ... [-O file|-] [-D dir] [--clobber] [--skip-existing], edit ... --name NAME renames.

gt issue view 12 --comments
gt issue comment 12 --body "Fixed in #14"
gt issue close 12 13 --comment "Done in #14"
gt issue attachment upload 12 crash.log
gt issue attachment download 12 9 -O - | less

label

gt label <command>
  create  delete  edit  export  import  list

Scope with --org organization for organization labels; otherwise the repository's. Addressed by name or ID; --by-name reads a number as a title. JSON: color, description, exclusive, id, is_archived, name.

• create <name> [-c color] [-d description] [--exclusive] [--archived] [-f/--force] — random color without -c; --force updates on name clash.
• edit <label> [-n name] [-c color] [-d description] [--exclusive] [--archived] [--by-name] — without flags on a terminal, a form edits the name, color and description from their current values.
• list, delete
• export [-O|--output file] and import <file> [-f|--force] — a label file, one label per line: #color name ;description ;flags (flags are exclusive and archived). gt label export writes this format; Gitea label templates use it. - reads/writes stdin.

gt label create bug --color d73a4a --description "Something is broken"
gt label edit bug --name defect --color b60205
gt label export --org acme --output labels.txt
gt label export -R alice/old | gt label import - -R alice/new

milestone

gt milestone <command>
  close  create  delete  edit  issue  list  reopen  view

milestone list aliases milestone ls; milestone create aliases milestone new. Addressed by title or ID. milestone issue manages the issues/PRs in it. JSON: closed_issues, description, due_on, id, open_issues, state, title.

• create [<title>] [-t title] [-d description] [-F desc-file] [-e] [--deadline date] [--state {open|closed}] [-f/--force] — --force updates an existing milestone of the same title.
• list [-s {open|closed|all}] [-L n] [--page n], view, edit, close, reopen, delete
• issue {list|add|remove} <milestone> [...].

gt milestone create v1.0 --deadline 2026-12-31 --description "First release"
gt milestone list --state open
gt milestone issue list v1.0