gh is GitHub on the command line. 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 available for repositories hosted on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20+, and to install on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
For installation options see below, for usage instructions see the manual.
If anything feels off, or if you feel that some functionality is missing, please check out the contributing page. There you will find instructions for sharing your feedback, building the tool locally, and submitting pull requests to the project.
If you are a hubber and are interested in shipping new commands for the CLI, check out our doc on internal contributions.
gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, and as a downloadable binary from the releases page.
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brew install gh |
brew upgrade gh |
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sudo port install gh |
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade gh |
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conda install gh --channel conda-forge |
conda update gh --channel conda-forge |
Additional Conda installation options available on the gh-feedstock page.
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spack install gh |
spack uninstall gh && spack install gh |
gh is available via:
- our Debian and RPM repositories;
- community-maintained repositories in various Linux distros;
- OS-agnostic package managers such as Homebrew, Conda, and Spack; and
- our releases page as precompiled binaries.
For more information, see Linux & BSD installation.
gh is available via WinGet, scoop, Chocolatey, Conda, and as downloadable MSI.
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winget install --id GitHub.cli |
winget upgrade --id GitHub.cli |
Note
The Windows installer modifies your PATH. When using Windows Terminal, you will need to open a new window for the changes to take effect. (Simply opening a new tab will not be sufficient.)
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scoop install gh |
scoop update gh |
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choco install gh |
choco upgrade gh |
MSI installers are available for download on the releases page.
To add GitHub CLI to your codespace, add the following to your devcontainer file:
"features": {
"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/github-cli:1": {}
}GitHub CLI comes pre-installed in all GitHub-Hosted Runners.
Download packaged binaries from the releases page.
See here on how to build GitHub CLI from source.
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.