Do everything from Terminal or Command Prompt with GitHub CLI.
GitHub CLI is Free and open source.
Installation Installation
We can install the GitHub CLI in various ways. I’m using the custom installation for Windows operating system in which I use the MSI file gh_1.0.0_windows_amd64.msi which is now in 5.84 MB.
For other installation process Visit https://github.com/cli/cli#installation
Downlaod the MSI version which is supported by your windows operating system.
- Visit https://cli.github.com/manual/
- Click on
gh_1.0.0_windows_amd64.msito Downlaod
- Click on Install
- How to confirm Github CLI is installed successfully?
- Open Terminal or Command Prompt
- Type
gh
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Or - Type
gh --version
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Authentication Authentication
- Use command
gh auth login - Select GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise Server and press enter
- Select Login with web browser or Paste an authentication token
- Enter the token
313A-1A69
9A85-0C0A
Protocol: HTTP / SSH
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DONE
Navigate any Github repository Navigate any Github repository
Here, I have clone the Gutenberg reposotory in my WordPress setup. So, I’m showing few GitHub CLI commands with Gutenberg repo.
PR list PR list
Type gh pr list
Checkout to PR. Checkout to PR.
Use gh pr checkout <ID>
E.g. gh pr checkout 25419
Issue List Issue List
gh issue list
See issue See issue
Use gh issue view <ID>
E.g. gh issue view 25437
See issue on browser with --web flag.
E.g. gh issue view 25437 --web
Create new Repo Create new Repo
mkdir github-cli-example
cd github-cli-example
git init
Use gh repo create
$ gh repo create ? Repository name github-cli-example ? Repository description ? Visibility Public ? This will create 'github-cli-example' in your current directory. Continue? Yes ? Created repository maheshwaghmare/github-cli-example on GitHub ? Added remote https://github.com/maheshwaghmare/github-cli-example.git
Create a README.MD as
ADMIN@ADMIN-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/dev/wp-content/plugins/github-cli-example (master) $ touch README.md ADMIN@ADMIN-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/dev/wp-content/plugins/github-cli-example (master) $ code README.md
I have added the below line in Readme.md file.
# This Repository Created with GitHub CLI command.
Now add changes in github.
ADMIN@ADMIN-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/dev/wp-content/plugins/github-cli-example (master) $ git add .
Commit changes
ADMIN@ADMIN-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/dev/wp-content/plugins/github-cli-example (master) $ git commit -m "Initial commit." [master (root-commit) 2b2938a] Initial commit. 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 README.md
Push changes
ADMIN@ADMIN-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/dev/wp-content/plugins/github-cli-example (master) $ git push origin master Enumerating objects: 3, done. Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 266 bytes | 133.00 KiB/s, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 To https://github.com/maheshwaghmare/github-cli-example.git * [new branch] master -> master
Now after visiting to https://github.com/maheshwaghmare/github-cli-example we can see: