GitHub CLI

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

GitHub CLI is supported for users on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20+ with support for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Documentation

For installation options see below, for usage instructions see the manual.

Contributing

If anything feels off, or if you feel that some functionality is missing, please check out the contributing page. There you will find instructions for sharing your feedback, building the tool locally, and submitting pull requests to the project.

If you are a hubber and are interested in shipping new commands for the CLI, check out our doc on internal contributions.

Installation

macOS

gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, and as a downloadable binary from the releases page.

Homebrew

MacPorts

Conda

Additional Conda installation options available on the gh-feedstock page.

Spack

Linux & BSD

gh is available via:

• our Debian and RPM repositories;
• community-maintained repositories in various Linux distros;
• OS-agnostic package managers such as Homebrew, Conda, and Spack; and
• our releases page as precompiled binaries.

For more information, see Linux & BSD installation.

Windows

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

WinGet

Note
The Windows installer modifies your PATH. When using Windows Terminal, you will need to open a new window for the changes to take effect. (Simply opening a new tab will not be sufficient.)

scoop

Chocolatey

Signed MSI

MSI installers are available for download on the releases page.

Codespaces

To add GitHub CLI to your codespace, add the following to your devcontainer file:

"features": {
  "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/github-cli:1": {}
}

GitHub Actions

GitHub CLI comes pre-installed in all GitHub-Hosted Runners.

Other platforms

Download packaged binaries from the releases page.

Build from source

See here on how to build GitHub CLI from source.

Comparison with hub

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.