gh - The GitHub CLI tool

gh is GitHub on the command line, and it's now available in beta. It brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to the terminal next to where you are already working with git and your code.

GitHub CLI is currently early in its development, and we're hoping to get feedback from people using it.

If you've installed and used gh, we'd love for you to take a short survey here (no more than five minutes): https://forms.gle/umxd3h31c7aMQFKG7

And if you spot bugs or have features that you'd really like to see in gh, please check out the contributing page

Usage

• gh pr [status, list, view, checkout, create]
• gh issue [status, list, view, create]
• gh help

Check out the docs for more information.

Comparison with hub

For many years, hub was the unofficial GitHub CLI tool. gh is a new project for us to explore what an official GitHub CLI tool can look like with a fundamentally different design. While both tools bring GitHub to the terminal, hub behaves as a proxy to git and gh is a standalone tool.

Installation

macOS

brew install github/gh/gh

Windows

MSI installers are available on the releases page.

Debian/Ubuntu Linux

1. Download the .deb file from the releases page

sudo apt install git && sudo dpkg -i gh_*_linux_amd64.deb

install the downloaded file

Fedora/Centos Linux

1. Download the .rpm file from the releases page

sudo yum localinstall gh_*_linux_amd64.rpm

install the downloaded file

Other platforms

Install a prebuilt binary from the releases page or source compile by running make from the project directory.