GitHub CLI 1.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub CLI 1.0

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Post by wlonkly » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:39 PM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #153

sigwinch28 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll admit that the only time I heard of the GitHub CLI was last week when I thought to myself "it's really annoying going to the website every time I just want to push a new repo"

I use the older `hub` for only one command, but it's not that one! Instead, I use it for opening a PR from the command line. Since my work generally consists of making feature branches and PR'ing them, I use `hub pull-request` sometimes multiple times a day. Huge time saver.

Ah, but now you can `gh pr create` instead! Saves four keystrokes.

But by the way, `hub browse` and `hub sync` are handy too.

Re: GitHub CLI 1.0

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Post by Shared404 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:46 PM UTC

pbalau wrote: post #76

Shared404 wrote: post #49

Is there an advantage to using this over the standard git cli tool? It seems kinda like making a cli tool for a web interface for a tool. I guess I'm just missing something. Edit: Spelling.

Yes, you are missing. This is GitHUB cli, not git cli. This has nothing to do with git.

> GitHUB cli

So a wrapper for an API for a website for git? Why?

Edit: Also, how does anything working with GitHub have nothing to do with git?

Edit 2: Don't get me wrong, this looks like a cool tool. I'm just curious about the motivation.

Re: GitHub CLI 1.0

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Post by bfuclusion » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 12:14 AM UTC

Finally, pull requests from the command line without git arcana.

Re: GitHub CLI 1.0

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Post by jackac » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 12:18 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #169

yakubin wrote: post #106

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CLI or not, it's centralized/siloed all the same. I'm sticking to Git.

It would be really nice if the other features of github could get into the decentralized model of git... I could imagine issues and PR reviews/comments all being mini-commits to some kind of parallel metadata repo under the hood for example.

There are some experimental tools for distributed code review and issues.

https://github.com/google/git-appraise

https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue

Would be nice to have something more polished though.

Re: GitHub CLI 1.0

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Post by maxioatic » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 12:19 AM UTC

staller wrote: post #166

0xmohit wrote: post #129

Wonder if this would lead to the end of hub https://hub.github.com >.

They do not treat hub as an official github project and rather an unofficial open source project that they don't plan to do away with They have a document where they expand on this: https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/gh-vs-hub.md

To highlight from that doc:

"The GitHub CLI team is focused solely on building out the new tool, gh. We aren’t shutting down hub or doing anything to change it. It’s an open source project and will continue to exist as long as it’s maintained and keeps receiving contributions."

Re: GitHub CLI 1.0

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Post by maxioatic » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 12:30 AM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #84

algorithmsRcool wrote: post #78

GitHub is killing it with these features. I wonder how long Azure Repos will survive on it's own.

And Golang is killing it for these kind of applications.

I was wondering if this was written in Go, and specifically using the Cobra framework. I checked out the repo and it was!

Other common CLIs written with the same framework: kubectl, hugo, rclone (to name a few)

Really is a great option.

Re: GitHub CLI 1.0

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Post by viraptor » Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 12:32 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #169

yakubin wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CLI or not, it's centralized/siloed all the same. I'm sticking to Git.

It would be really nice if the other features of github could get into the decentralized model of git... I could imagine issues and PR reviews/comments all being mini-commits to some kind of parallel metadata repo under the hood for example.