gh_cli.md

Creating pull requests

You can create the pull requests from Github portal or you can install gh cli on local machine and then create and merge the pull requests from local machine itself. But, this level of privilege may not be provided to individual developers.

https://cli.github.com/

Install the gh cli

gh auth login

Follow the instructions to set up cli.

Create the pull request

git checkout feature1
gh pr create
#or
gh pr create --base main --title "My first cli PR" --body "Raising a new PR"

Other examples

gh pr create --title "The bug is fixed" --body "Everything works again"
gh pr create --reviewer monalisa,hubot  --reviewer myorg/team-name
gh pr create --project "Roadmap"
gh pr create --base develop --head monalisa:feature
gh pr create --draft
gh pr create --web

More examples

gh issue list
gh issue view 10
gh issue create
gh repo create some-org/another-repo
gh repo clone some-org/some-other-repo

Review the PRs

gh pr status
gh pr list

Switch to the PR’s branch based on PR number

gh pr checkout 123
gh pr view 123 --web

Approve the pull request of the current branch

gh pr review --approve

Leave a review comment for the current branch

gh pr review --comment -b "interesting"

Add a review for a specific pull request

gh pr review 123

Request changes on a specific pull request

gh pr review 123 -r -b "needs more work"