Feature Requests: Allow Custom Command Aliases

[JoshuaSarver-msr]

This is a really great tool, but on a day to day basis I'm only using a subset of the functionality available. Some of the command/flags feel unwieldy for a quick hop-in/hop-out session in jira to check a ticket, etc. And I'm lazy and like shortcuts. :)

I think adding a feature to create custom aliases would be highly beneficial. This could be done via shell aliases, but I having aliases integrated into the jira tool would be much nicer to use imo. Below is an example from a Git config file:

# ~/.gitconfig
[alias]
remote-url = config --get remote.origin.url
ac = !git add . && git commit -am
fp = ! git fetch && git pull

# list aliases
la = "!git config -l | grep alias | cut -c 7-"

In my case, one aliases (of several) I'd like to make is the following:

# pseudo-code/config
me = issue list -a$(jira me)

Which would require executing just jira me.

If more details are needed please let me know and I'll fill them in!

[ankitpokhrel]

And I'm lazy and like shortcuts :)

Jokes aside, I think you are looking for a feature like this. It would be a bit of a work and I am bit overwhelmed at the moment with all the requests. I am open to add this feature if someone is willing to work on and maintain this feature. For now, I think you'll have to live with shell aliases 🙃

alias jira-me = jira issue list -a$(jira me)

[JoshuaSarver-msr]

Thank you @ankitpokhrel !

[ChristophSchmidpeter]

I think it would be nice to be able to define aliases in way that e.g instead of always typing "issue" one can type simply "i", or whatever you set, which I cannot see how to do via shell aliases.

[ChristophSchmidpeter]

A great implementation example, in my opinion, is the gh-cli alias command, which might serve as inspiration source.

[electriquo]

@ankitpokhrel it will be great if you could be inspired by gh-cli alias command. this will allow to share jira-cli configuration with others regardless of their shell and will eliminate shell alias conflicts

[bnadlerjr]

A workaround that I've been using to accomplish this is a custom bash function:

jira() {
    if [ "$1" = "my-issues" ]; then
        command jira issue list -a "$(jira me)"
    else
        command jira "$@"
    fi
}