Hi Jürg, > Can't it import issues 1:1 without changing the issue numbering? I was > expecting that based on `usePlaceholderIssuesForMissingIssues` as > described in the README. This would also allow issue references in the > git commit history to remain valid. > > This can't work for PRs as GitHub uses a shared namespace for issue and > PR numbers while GitLab doesn't. However, I think issue references are > more important than PR references. And I'm hoping that the GitLab MRs > can stay up (as read-only archive).
Sorry, I overlooked this. You are right - we can indeed preserve the mapping between issues. Initially I only looked at some MR references, and assumed that the same would apply to issues. But, I did run with `usePlaceholderIssuesForMissingIssues: true` and that mapping seems to have been preserved. For example https://github.com/cs-shadow/buildstream/issues/140#issuecomment-673461465. MR references still don't seem to be preserved though. (I can live with that.) - Chandan
