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+backlog
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diff --git a/6418c1d923b740057a6138e16664b3c6/description b/6418c1d923b740057a6138e16664b3c6/description
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+add `ent modify ISSUE CHANGE...
+
+CHANGE is one or more changes to make to the issue, that looks a bit
+like the FILTER of `ent list`.  Something like:
+```
+$ ent modify 123abc state=inprogress assignee=seb tag=bug,cli
+```
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+backlog
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