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Enabling/Disabling GitHub Issues via the GitHub API

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I recently needed to toggle whether GitHub Issues is enabled for a number of repositories, and wanted to automate it.

Searching through the GitHub docs I couldn't find anything super explicit, aside from a UI-driven configuration.

Thankfully one of my colleagues pointed me to the Update a repo functionality, which includes the ability to specify PATCHing the has_issues field.

For instance, using the gh CLI:

# enable Issues
gh api \
  --method PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  /repos/jamietanna/oapi-codegen \
 -F has_issues=true
# disable Issues
gh api \
  --method PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  /repos/jamietanna/oapi-codegen \
 -F has_issues=false

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