cli/cli v0.12.0

on GitHub

Features

• New gh auth commands for authentication:

  • gh auth status #1495
  • gh auth login #1445
  • gh auth refresh #1501
  • gh auth logout #1491

• Add support for GitHub Enterprise Server #1517

  • To get started, use gh auth login
  • To clone a GHE repo: gh repo clone example.com/owner/repo
  • Use GH_HOST environment variable to choose a default hostname for all commands

• Implement OAuth Device Authorization flow for github.com #1522

  This enables authenticating to github.com when gh is used on a machine that does not have a graphical web browser. The new flow enables opening a browser on a different machine to complete the authentication process.

• Publish repositories for Debian and RPM packages #1615

  See Linux installation instructions

• Add ability to create repositories from a repository template #1590

  gh repo create <reponame> --template <owner>/<templaterepo>

• Enable using PAGER for gh pr diff output #1534

• Add gh pr checkout --recurse-submodules flag #1479

• Add gh pr close --delete-branch flag #1476

• Allow omitting one's own username in gh repo view <reponame> #1567

• gh issue/pr view now include number and URL in machine-readable output #1580

• Add :branch placeholder in gh api #1515

• Support GraphQL operationName field in gh api #1448

Bugs

• Fix “TLS handshake timeout” on macOS #514

• Fix gh issues list --milestone filter #1462

• Fix color output on standard error on Windows #1579

• Disallow gh pr <command> --repo <repo> flag for commands that operate on the current branch #1585

• Be transparent about which part of gh pr create flow failed #1603

• Fix detecting display width of common punctuation characters #1616

• Filter bots out of gh repo credits output #1623