When importing issues via bridge pull, git-bug performs a string validation on the title and the message. As not all gitlab instances perform this kind of validation, not all issues possible in gitlab can be imported as git-bug bugs.

For example control characters like U+007F can be used in a gitlab issue title, but the import fails with the message title is not fully printable.

A possible workaround is to rename the issue. I'm well aware this character should not be there and that would be the best solution, but i don't want to change the history of the legacy project in question.

To be able to import such projects, the introduction of a -f, --force or --no-validation flag for bridge pull could be considered.

This should be pretty easy to fix. The gitlab bridge does cleanup the description of an issue but the same is missing for the title.

See https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/blob/master/bridge/gitlab/import.go#L141

Michael Muré (MichaelMure) added label area/bridge 5 years ago

Michael Muré (MichaelMure) added label kind/bug 5 years ago

Michael Muré (MichaelMure) changed the title from [gitlab] missing text cleanup for the title to [gitlab] missing text cleanup for the title 5 years ago

Michael Muré (MichaelMure) closed the bug 5 years ago