gh is GitHub on the command line, and it's now available in beta. It brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to the terminal next to where you are already working with git and your code.

While in beta, GitHub CLI is available for repos hosted on GitHub.com only. It currently does not support repositories hosted on GitHub Enterprise Server or other hosting providers. We are planning on adding support for GitHub Enterprise Server after GitHub CLI is out of beta (likely towards the end of 2020), and we want to ensure that the API endpoints we use are more widely available for GHES versions that most GitHub customers are on.

GitHub CLI is currently in its early development stages, and we're hoping to get feedback from people using it.

If you've installed and used gh, we'd love for you to take a short survey here (no more than five minutes): https://forms.gle/umxd3h31c7aMQFKG7

And if you spot bugs or have features that you'd really like to see in gh, please check out the contributing page

• gh pr [status, list, view, checkout, create]
• gh issue [status, list, view, create]
• gh repo [view, create, clone, fork]
• gh config [get, set]
• gh help

Read the official docs for more information.

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.

gh is available via Homebrew and MacPorts.

Install:

brew install github/gh/gh

Upgrade:

brew upgrade gh

Install:

sudo port install gh

Upgrade:

sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade gh

gh is available via scoop, Chocolatey, and as downloadable MSI.

Install:

scoop bucket add github-gh https://github.com/cli/scoop-gh.git
scoop install gh

Upgrade:

scoop update gh

Install:

choco install gh

Upgrade:

choco upgrade gh

MSI installers are available for download on the releases page.

Install and upgrade:

1. Download the .deb file from the releases page
2. sudo apt install ./gh_*_linux_amd64.deb install the downloaded file

Install and upgrade:

1. Download the .rpm file from the releases page
2. sudo dnf install gh_*_linux_amd64.rpm install the downloaded file

Install and upgrade:

1. Download the .rpm file from the releases page
2. sudo yum localinstall gh_*_linux_amd64.rpm install the downloaded file

Install and upgrade:

1. Download the .rpm file from the releases page
2. sudo zypper in gh_*_linux_amd64.rpm install the downloaded file

Arch Linux users can install from the community repo: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/github-cli/

pacman -S github-cli

Install a prebuilt binary from the releases page