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Luiz Calaça
Luiz Calaça

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You need to know about Github CLI

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Hi, Devs!

What is GitHub CLI: A Command Line Interface to handle easily: repo clones, pull requests, merges, issues, gists and much others

Documentation: https://cli.github.com/manual/

Installation

//Mac brew install gh //Linux https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md
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Are you going to clone a repo?

gh auth login gh repo list gh repo clone <repo_name_from_list>
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Yes, you don't need to go to the Github page, all in one CLI tool you could clone a project.

Creating, deleting and configuring a repository

gh repo create gh repo create <name_of_repo> --public gh repo create my-project --private --source=. --remote=upstream gh repo edit --visibility <visibility-string> gh repo sync gh repo create --disable-issues=true --public gh repo list gh repo delete <name_of_repo> gh repo clone <name_of_repo> gh repo fork <name_of_repo>
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Locally, you create your project with git init, commit your files and after you should go to the gh repo create and would be created remotely the repo and locally configured with the remote origin:

mkdir project && cd project git init gh repo create
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Usually, when you are programming you think should be possible to save a piece of code. You can use the Gist:

Creating a gist easily

touch index.js // after create content for it gh gist create index.js --public gh gist create - gh gist edit <gist_id> gh gist list --public gh gist list --secret
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Handling issues

gh issue create gh issue list gh issue status git issue close <#number_issue> gh list -A "<name_issue>"
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Handling Pull requests

gh pr create gh pr checkout <name> gh pr diff <#number_of_pr> gh review -c -b "nice work" gh pr close <#number_of_pr> -d gh pr reopen <#number_of_pr> gh pr status
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If you get started to use certainly you'll see that's so great tool.

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