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.
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.
GitHub CLI is currently in its early development stages, 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
gh pr [status, list, view, checkout, create]
gh issue [status, list, view, create]
gh repo [view, create, clone, fork]
gh config [get, set]
gh help
Read the official docs for more information.
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.
gh
is available via Homebrew and MacPorts.
Install:
brew install gh
Upgrade:
brew upgrade gh
Install:
sudo port install gh
Upgrade:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade gh
gh
is available via scoop, Chocolatey, and as downloadable MSI.
Install:
scoop bucket add github-gh https://github.com/cli/scoop-gh.git
scoop install gh
Upgrade:
scoop update gh
Install:
choco install gh
Upgrade:
choco upgrade gh
MSI installers are available for download on the releases page.
Install and upgrade:
- Download the
.deb
file from the releases page; - Install the downloaded file:
sudo apt install ./gh_*_linux_amd64.deb
Install and upgrade:
- Download the
.rpm
file from the releases page; - Install the downloaded file:
sudo dnf install gh_*_linux_amd64.rpm
Install and upgrade:
- Download the
.rpm
file from the releases page; - Install the downloaded file:
sudo yum localinstall gh_*_linux_amd64.rpm
Install and upgrade:
- Download the
.rpm
file from the releases page; - Install the downloaded file:
sudo zypper in gh_*_linux_amd64.rpm
Arch Linux users can install from the community repo:
pacman -S github-cli
Android users can install via Termux:
pkg install gh
Download packaged binaries from the releases page.
See here on how to build GitHub CLI from source.