GitHub CLI

• Completions
• Examples
  • Create a repository
  • Clone a repository

GitHub CLI, or gh, is a command-line interface to GitHub and GitHub-Gist for use in your terminal or your scripts. Manual is found here and the GitHub page is here.

Install:

winget install --id GitHub.cli

Plugins is found here.

Completions

Add the following to your powershell profile:

Invoke-Expression -Command $(gh completion -s powershell | Out-String)

Examples

Create a repository

• create a repository interactively
  gh repo create

• create a new remote repository and clone it locally
  gh repo create my-project --public --clone

• create a new remote repository in a different organization
  gh repo create my-org/my-project --public

• create a remote repository from the current directory
  gh repo create my-project --private --source=. --remote=upstream

Clone a repository

• Clone a repository from a specific org
  gh repo clone cli/cli

• Clone a repository from your own account
  gh repo clone myrepo

• Clone a repo, overriding git protocol configuration
  gh repo clone https://github.com/cli/cli
gh repo clone git@github.com:cli/cli.git

• Clone a repository to a custom directory
  gh repo clone cli/cli workspace/cli

• Clone a repository with additional git clone flags
  gh repo clone cli/cli -- --depth=1