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How to start a new Redmine installation with new issue numbers from a preset number?
Added by Frank Church about 8 years ago
I lost my Redmine database but retained the repositories which have issue numbers in the git commit messages.
What I want to do is to create a new repo but set the starting number for the issues from an arbitrary number, eg issue 2000.
But I also want to create issues whose number I can set below the starting point, eg 1001 etc, so that I can link them to the commits which are already in the repository logs.
One option I can think of is to prepopulate the database with dummy subjects and descriptions and change the subjects and descriptions afterwards. The other option parse the commit logs for the issue numbers and their notes and enter them as the issues subjects and descriptions.
It is something like this possible and are there some tools or libraries which can help accomplish