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Kavin Desi Valli
Kavin Desi Valli

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Control your Github from the command line with the Github CLI

Want to create a repository, but don't want to go to Github and follow that manual and perhaps long process, every single time.

Use the Official Github CLI. It can do a lot of stuff ranging from creating a repo to closing a PR. I have written down some important commands in this blog post. (Have also linked the docs for the commands)

Login

First, to use some of the commands listed below, you will have to authenticate the CLI by running

gh auth login
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Creating a repository

This is probably the command I use the most

gh repo create repo_name
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List repositories of a user 

gh repo list username
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View Repository in web

View any repository in web 

gh repo view owner/repo_name --web
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View the repository you're currently in (cloned repository) 

gh repo view --web
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Aliases

List Aliases 

gh alias list
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Set Alias 

gh alias set <alias> <expansion>
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Delete Alias 

gh alias delete <alias>
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These are my most used commands but there are a lot more which can be found on the Github CLI Docs. And most of these commands listed above can also be used with some flags which are listed in the documentations.

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