I would like to be able to use git to clone the issues for various projects on github. I know I can clone the code and the wiki (if it exists). I cannot find a way to clone the issues.
As a worked example, here's how I would clone the main repo containing the project's source code:
git clone https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android.git
And this works for the wiki pages of this project:
git clone https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android.wiki.git
I've tried the following to see if it would work for the issues, but it doesn't
git clone https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android.issues.git
Cloning into 'kiwix-android.issues'...
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android.issues.git/' not found
Being able to clone the issues would be a great help, particularly to run scripts to analyse the set of issues for various problems, etc.
It is not possible to clone issues of GitHub repositories. An alternative for you to get the issues' data would be to use the GitHub APIs.
Check out the documentation here to get issues for a repository.
GET /repos/:owner/:repo/issues
You can get the issues' data using the API, store it in file system and then run your necessary scripts on them.