Add --description flag to issue view for summary + description only output - #9
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Currently `jira issue view` only offers full pretty/plain output (with header, subtasks, links, comments, footer) or the entire raw API JSON. There was no clean way to get just the subject and description, which users were working around with `issue list --columns` plus custom jq/sed scripts. The new --description flag prints just those two fields with no decoration, making it easy to pipe into scripts or other tools.
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…utput (#9) \`jira issue view\` currently only supports the full pretty/plain rendering (emoji header, subtasks, linked issues, comments, and a Jira URL footer) or \`--raw\`, which dumps the entire Jira API JSON response. There was no way to get just the subject and description as clean text, so users resorted to piping \`issue list --columns\` output through custom jq/sed scripts. This adds a \`--description\` flag that fetches the issue and prints only the summary and the translated description text (reusing the existing description-translation logic used by the pretty view), with no header, footer, comments, or emoji decoration. This makes the output easy to consume from scripts or other tools. Addresses ankitpokhrel#933.
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`jira issue view` currently only supports the full pretty/plain rendering (emoji header, subtasks, linked issues, comments, and a Jira URL footer) or `--raw`, which dumps the entire Jira API JSON response. There was no way to get just the subject and description as clean text, so users resorted to piping `issue list --columns` output through custom jq/sed scripts.
This adds a `--description` flag that fetches the issue and prints only the summary and the translated description text (reusing the existing description-translation logic used by the pretty view), with no header, footer, comments, or emoji decoration. This makes the output easy to consume from scripts or other tools.
Addresses ankitpokhrel#933.