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ghi

GHI(1)							      General Commands Manual							    GHI(1)

NAME

       ghi - command-line interface to the GitHub Issues API

SYNOPSIS

       ghi command [arguments] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the ghi command.

       ghi is a command-line interface to the GitHub Issues API. It can be used to access all of GitHub's documented Issues API (v2) functionality
       from the command line: open, close and manipulate issues.
       If no command is given, the default action is list. If a number is given instead, the default action is show.

COMMANDS

       list [ -s open|closed|all ]
	      Show open, closed or all issues (choose with -s, see below). Default is open.

       show number
	      Show issue number. This command can be invoked also as ghi <number>.

       open [ number ], o [ number ]
	      Create a new issue, and launch $EDITOR. If number is given, reopens that issue.

       open -m message, o -m message
	      Create a new issue with message content (optionally, use 
 for new lines; first line will be the issue title).

       close number, c number
	      Closes issue number.

       edit number, e number
	      Edit issue number with $EDITOR.

       label add|remove label number
	      Add or remove label to/from issue number.
	      You can use al or rl instead of, respectively, label add and label remove.

       search term, s term
	      Search for term.

       comment number, m number
	      Create a comment for issue number (with $EDITOR).

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --verbose
	      Show issue details (only for show, list and search commands). Default is false.

       -V, --version
	      Show program's version number and exit.

       -s STATE, --state=STATE
	      Specify state (only for list and search (except "all") commands). Choices are: open (o), closed (c), all (a). Default is open.

       -r REPO, --repo=REPO, --repository=REPO
	      Specify a repository. The format: "user/repo" or just "repo" (latter will get the user from the global git config).

       -w, --web, --webbrowser
	      Show issue(s) GitHub page in web browser (only for list and show commands). Default is false.

AUTHOR

       github-cli was written by Sander Smits <jhmsmits@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								  April 13, 2010							    GHI(1)