Github Cli

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June 28, 2021

GitHub CLI is pretty convenient:

Usage

Github CLI is quite convenient for administrative things:

Viewing the state of all your PRs: gh pr status
Browsing a PR gh pr view 756 --web
Fetching the code for a PR in a dedicated branch: gh pr checkout 756
Opening a new PR using commit as title, opening a browser to finish creation: gh pr create --fill --body '' --web
Asking Github to run a workflow: gh worflow run "some-maintenance-task.yml"

Updating

I prefer to use the packages from the github releases than to use a package manager. It’s possible to script the updates:

gh release list -R "cli/cli"|rg Latest
GitHub CLI 1.11.0   Latest  v1.11.0 2021-06-03T17:26:21Z

version="1.11.0"
tmpdir=`mktemp`
gh release download v$version -p "*arm64.deb" -D $tmpdir -R "cli/cli"
sudo dpkg -i $tmpdir/gh_$version_linux_arm64.deb

Usage

Updating

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