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how to commit and push using cli ? #3093

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how to commit and push using cli ? #3093
@rockey5520 rockey5520
Mar 6, 2021 · 2 answers · 2 replies
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rockey5520
Mar 6, 2021

how to commit and push using cli ? cant seem to find the command in the manula
Answered by mislav Mar 6, 2021

Hi, you cannot commit nor push using GitHub CLI.

If you look at gh help, you will see commands related to GitHub Issues, Pull Requests, Releases, and so on. But there are no commands to make commits. This is because GItHub CLI does not replace git.

To commit and push, you can use git on the command-line:

$ git add myfile1.txt myfile2.txt
$ git commit -m "My commit message"
$ git push -u origin HEAD
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mislav
Mar 6, 2021
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Hi, you cannot commit nor push using GitHub CLI.

If you look at gh help, you will see commands related to GitHub Issues, Pull Requests, Releases, and so on. But there are no commands to make commits. This is because GItHub CLI does not replace git.

To commit and push, you can use git on the command-line:

$ git add myfile1.txt myfile2.txt
$ git commit -m "My commit message"
$ git push -u origin HEAD
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rockey5520 Mar 13, 2021
Author

out of curiosity, wondering there is an option to clone a repo but not commit :)

gh repo clone x/x
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mislav Mar 15, 2021
Maintainer

That's a good question. We decided to make some git operations easier, such as cloning. A regular clone would look like this:

git clone https://github.com/owner/repo.git

With GitHub CLI, it can be shorter:

gh repo clone owner/repo

In this case, GitHub CLI wraps a git command and we add some value for the user. But most other git commands we do not wrap, and you should still use them directly, such as git commit. For now, we decided not to wrap git commit because we do not think gh can right now add any value to the commit operation.

We might wrap the git push operation in the future: #2189
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rockey5520
Mar 15, 2021
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Thank you so much for explaining the reasons behind this conscious decision.

btw, I thoroughly enjoyed your experience on building gh in Go Time podcast episode last year.
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