/cli

GitHub’s official command line tool

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GitHub CLI

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.

screenshot of gh pr status

Availability

While in beta, GitHub CLI is available for repos hosted on GitHub.com only. It currently does not support repositories hosted on GitHub Enterprise Server or other hosting providers. We are planning on adding support for GitHub Enterprise Server after GitHub CLI is out of beta (likely towards the end of 2020), and we want to ensure that the API endpoints we use are more widely available for GHES versions that most GitHub customers are on.

We want your feedback

We'd love to hear your feedback about gh. 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 repo [view, create, clone, fork]
  • gh auth [login, logout, refresh, status]
  • gh config [get, set]
  • gh help

Documentation

Read the official docs for more information.

Comparison with hub

For many years, hub was the unofficial GitHub CLI tool. gh is a new project that helps us 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. Check out our more detailed explanation to learn more.

Installation

macOS

gh is available via Homebrew and MacPorts.

Homebrew

Install:

brew install gh

Upgrade:

brew upgrade gh

MacPorts

Install:

sudo port install gh

Upgrade:

sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade gh

Linux

See Linux installation docs.

Windows

gh is available via scoop, Chocolatey, and as downloadable MSI.

scoop

Install:

scoop bucket add github-gh https://github.com/cli/scoop-gh.git
scoop install gh

Upgrade:

scoop update gh

Chocolatey

Install:

choco install gh

Upgrade:

choco upgrade gh

Signed MSI

MSI installers are available for download on the releases page.

Other platforms

Download packaged binaries from the releases page.

Build from source

See here on how to build GitHub CLI from source.