nrepo move

nrepo move <id> <status>            # one idea
nrepo move <status> --ids <ids>     # many ideas

Which mode you get depends on --ids, not on the arguments: with --ids present the first positional argument is read as the status, without it as the id.

Valid statuses: captured, exploring, building, shipped, shelved.

Options

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--ids <ids>	string	(none)	Comma-separated idea IDs. Switches the command into bulk mode.
--json	boolean	false	Output as JSON.
--human	boolean	—	Force human-readable output. Wins over --json.

Passing neither a second positional argument nor --ids prints the usage line and exits 1:

Usage: nrepo move <id> <status> or nrepo move <status> --ids 1,2,3

An unknown status is rejected before any request is sent:

Invalid status "done". Must be one of: captured, exploring, building, shipped, shelved

Single mode

nrepo move 391 building

✓ #42 → building

--json prints the full updated idea.

Bulk mode

nrepo move shipped --ids 391,402,417

  ✓ #391
  ✓ #402
  ✗ #417  Idea 417 not found
2 moved to shipped, 1 errors

Caution

Bulk moves are not atomic. Each idea is updated independently and you get one result line per ID — a bad ID in the middle does not roll back the ones before it. Read the trailing counts, or the results array in --json, rather than assuming the whole batch landed.

The per-idea lines print the ID you passed, not the display number the single-idea form echoes. Do not read ✓ #391 as “idea number 391”.

--json returns the raw bulk response:

{
  "updated": 2,
  "errors": 1,
  "results": [
    { "id": 391, "status": "updated" },
    { "id": 402, "status": "updated" },
    { "id": 417, "status": "error", "error": "Idea 417 not found" }
  ]
}

# Fail a CI step if anything in the batch failed
nrepo move shipped --ids 391,402 --json | jq -e '.errors == 0' > /dev/null

Limits

Limit	Value
IDs per bulk request	50 — more returns 400 Maximum 50 ideas per bulk update
ID parsing	Non-numeric and non-positive entries are silently dropped; an empty result exits 1

For more than 50, batch the list yourself:

nrepo log --status captured --json | jq -r '.[].id' \
  | xargs -n 50 | tr ' ' ',' \
  | while read -r batch; do nrepo move shelved --ids "$batch"; done

Next Steps

Status Workflow What each status is for and the transitions that matter.

nrepo tag The other bulk editor — same 50-ID cap, same per-idea results.

nrepo log Build the ID list a bulk move consumes.

nrepo rm Archive an idea instead of shelving it.