I travel a lot, and if you're reading this, so don't you! Sometimes the interwebs are hard to come by. For these cases I needed a good way to store my GitHub issues offline so I could review them whilst traveling, allowing me to be more effective.

"Wait, Mark, I know there are tools already that do this! Why the hell are you building another one!?" - Calm down. Wow! No need to get defensive. I built it because I tried about a dozen of them, and most of them I couldn't even get to install let alone run. This one is written in Go which means it's stupid easy (in theory) to run on anything, without a bazillion dependencies (I'm looking at you NPM!!).

In addition to an app I could actually install, I wanted one that was stupid easy to use. I wanted to fetch all of the issues for a repo. I wanted to list them all by state, and I wanted to see the details of a particular one (along with comments). That's it. Simple. Oh, and I wanted to do it all in my terminal window. Who has the time for fancy-shmancy GUIs? Not this fella, that's for sure!

Assuming you already have Go installed, all you need to do is the following:

$ go get github.com/markbates/ghi

That's it! I'll probably add cross-platform pre-built binaries at some point, if the demand is great enough. :)

$ ghi help

That'll explain most of it. I hate repeating myself, so I won't.

The first time you run this, you should read the help on the fetch command first.

$ ghi help fetch

I probably should've mentioned this earlier, but this client is purely READONLY. Don't expect to be able to update, create, delete, wave at, give gifts to, or in any other way interactive with issues.