“Ferret” for Git Things Done

Fetches comments from old GitTD entries that match a query.

Purpose

Essentially a way to keep persistent notes but without the overhead of having to manage them, with free history.

For example, I use this to maintain a note about my goals for next year, fetching the comment titled # 2022 whenever I want to add to it. Then next year I can fetch and use the usher to keep it in my daily entry for a few weeks.

Justification

I plan to use this for occasional notes and lists that I don’t want to “manage” in a traditional notes app. My notes app is FULL at this point. Mostly full of junk. If I’d used “ferret” instead notes I no longer were interested in would naturally have been left behind in the ticket history and not clutter the notes app interface.

Now I can use my Notes app for important topics and not everything.

Usage

Requires Git Things Done.

You need a .github/workflows/ferret.yml:

name: Ferret
on:
  issue_comment:
    types:
      - created
      - edited
jobs:
  ferret:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: github.event.issue_comment.user.login != 'github-actions[bot]'
    steps:
      - uses: git-things-done/ferret@v1

Then in your daily entry add a new comment:

/ferret topic

The ferret will search do a reverse chronological search for a comment with a markdown title matching topic, if it finds it it will replace the comment text with what it found.

For Example

If you create a new comment with the text: /ferret topic, the ferret would look backwards through all your issues until it found a comment with this content:

# topic

foo bar baz.

The ferret would then replace the text /ferret topic with the above markdown.