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Boost productivity with the GitHub CLI

Nick Taylor on November 14, 2023

The GitHub CLI is an indispensable tool as a project maintainer or contributor on GitHub. It can boost your productivity when getting things done. ...

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TED Vortex (Teodor Eugen Duțulescu) • Nov 15 '23

Very well written article! I would add 2 things tho:

having the gh cli installed and an isolated login (regardless if https or ssh) can simplify the process of contributing to open source projects or switching between work and hobby by a lot, making it in my opinion a default requirement for doing open source easily
the CLI really shines at the GitHub functionality that is not available (easily) in the git command line itself, like gh issue/pr/gist, you touched on them less than the repo create function (which is still faster from the UI?), IMHO they deserve more love (or an entire article for each? :D)

Nick Taylor • Nov 15 '23 • Edited

Thanks for reading and the feedback Ted!

For the first point I thought it was kind of implied (but maybe I can be more explicit about it), but to your second point, there’s lots I still haven’t touched in terms of commands in the GitHub CLI. Maybe another article. 😎

For creating PRs, for me at least it’s pretty quick, but I also use it to automate creating PRs for certain things, like pulling in my content to my website. See

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flo merian • Nov 15 '23

great write-up, @nickytonline, and perfect timing as GitHub just released a new extension, bringing Copilot to the CLI. you can ask it to do things like explain how a command works or suggest a command for a task you want to perform.

it's currently in public beta, and it's open source!