Original version of the script to link issues from datalad 0.11.3-26-g8af6b67d

Author: yarikoptic

utils/link_issues_CHANGELOG

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+in=CHANGELOG.md
+
+# Replace them with Markdown references
+sed -i -e 's/(\(#[0-9]\+\))/([\1])/g' "$in"
+
+# Populate references
+cat "$in" | sponge | sed -n -e 's/.*(\[#\([0-9]\+\)\]).*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq \
+| while read issue; do
+    # remove old one if exists
+    sed -i -e "/^\[#$issue\]:.*/d" "$in"
+    echo "[#$issue]: https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/$issue" >> "$in";
+done