Take GitHub to the command line

GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. Free and open source.

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Create a shortcut for a gh command.

$ gh alias set bugs 'issue list --label="bugs"

- Adding alias for bugs: issue list --label="bugs"

✓Added alias.

$ gh bugs

Showing 2 of 7 issues in cli/cli that match your search

#19 Pagination request returns empty JSON (bug)

#21 Error raised when passing valid parameters (bug)

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Work with issues, pull requests, checks, releases and more.

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Call the GitHub API to script almost any action, and set a custom alias for any command.

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Connect to GitHub Enterprise Server in addition to GitHub.com.

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