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hub 2.3.0 – codename “Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant”

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@mislav mislav released this 29 May 14:45
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v2.3.0
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This is a long-awaited release of hub with an abudance of new features. Thank you everyone for testing out prereleases, reporting bugs, and submitting pull requests! The work of 76 contributors went into this release. ✨

To upgrade hub on macOS, run brew upgrade hub. Alternatively, you can download one of the provided precompiled binaries. See other installation methods.

New commands

  • hub issue: list and create issues and labels

    Usage: hub issue [-a <ASSIGNEE>] [-c <CREATOR>] [-@ <USER>] [-s <STATE>] [-f <FORMAT>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>] [-d <DATE>] [-o <SORT_KEY> [-^]] [-L <LIMIT>]
       hub issue create [-oc] [-m <MESSAGE>|-F <FILE>] [-a <USERS>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>]
       hub issue labels [--color]

  • hub pr list: list pull requests for the current repository

  • hub pr checkout <NUMBER>: checkout a pull request by its number

  • hub release: list, create, edit, and delete releases and attachments

    Usage: hub release [--include-drafts] [--exclude-prereleases] [-L <LIMIT>]
       hub release show <TAG>
       hub release create [-dpoc] [-a <FILE>] [-m <MESSAGE>|-F <FILE>] [-t <TARGET>] <TAG>
       hub release edit [<options>] <TAG>
       hub release delete <TAG>

  • hub sync: fetch updates from remote repository and sync all local branches to their upstream equivalents, purging merged ones

    hub sync example

Improved commands

  • hub pull-request now has the ability to set assignees, labels, reviewers, and milestones.

    Usage: hub pull-request [-focp] [-b <BASE>] [-h <HEAD>] [-r <REVIEWERS> ] [-a <ASSIGNEES>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>]
       hub pull-request -m <MESSAGE>
       hub pull-request -F <FILE> [--edit]
       hub pull-request -i <ISSUE>

  • hub pull-request and hub issue create now support pull request and issue templates.

  • Commands that print the resulting URL, such as hub pull-request or hub create, now accept --copy to put the URL to the system clipboard instead.

  • hub pull-request --push pushes the head branch to the remote before opening the pull request.

  • hub pull-request now strips away the Signed-off-by line and the commit signature when generating the default pull request message.

  • Commands that take input via -m or -F arguments now also respect --edit to additionally edit the text in a text editor before submitting.

  • Support core.commentchar=auto git configuration when editing pull request/issue/release message in a text editor.

  • Support /OWNER/REPO/pull/XYZ/commits/SHA format of URLs as argument to cherry-pick, am, and apply.

  • Commands such as cherry-pick, merge <PR-URL>, and checkout <PR-URL> don't leave leftover git remotes anymore.

  • New hub compare -b BASE flag.

  • New hub fork --org=ORGANIZATION flag.

  • New hub fork --remote-name=NAME flag to configure the new git remote.

  • New, manpage-based help system; see hub help hub and hub help hub-<command>.

  • Added fish shell completion script.

  • When prompted to authenticate with username/password, pasting a Personal Access Token now works just as well instead of the password.

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