jira-to-md

JIRA to MarkDown text format converter

Golang tool to convert from JIRA Markdown text formatting to GitHub Flavored MarkDown.

Credits

This fun toy was heavily inspired by the J2M project by Fokke Zandbergen (http://j2m.fokkezb.nl/). Major credit to Fokke, kylefarris (and other contributors) for establishing the RexExp patterns for this to work. The maintained JavaScript fork I based this on is here

Supported Conversions

• Headers (H1-H6)
• Bold
• Italic
• Bold + Italic
• Un-ordered lists
• Ordered lists
• Programming Language-specific code blocks (with help from herbert-venancio)
• Inline preformatted text spans
• Un-named links
• Named links
• Monospaced Text
• Citations (currently kinda buggy)
• Strikethroughs
• Inserts
• Superscripts
• Subscripts
• Single-paragraph blockquotes
• Tables
• Panels

How to Use

Markdown String

**Some bold things**
*Some italic stuff*
## H2
<http://google.com>

Atlassian Wiki MarkUp Syntax (JIRA)

We'll refer to this as the jira variable in the examples below.

*Some bold things**
_Some italic stuff_
h2. H2
[http://google.com]

Examples

cat j2m.jira | j2m