🧾 GitHub CLI Cheatsheet

This repository is a command-line reference for working with GitHub using git and gh (GitHub CLI).

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🔧 Git Setup

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

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📁 Repository Operations

Clone a repo

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

Create a new repo (local + remote)

mkdir my-repo && cd my-repo
git init
gh repo create my-repo --public --source=. --remote=origin --push

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🌿 Branching

Create and switch to a branch

git checkout -b feature-branch

Push branch to GitHub

git push -u origin feature-branch

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🔄 Syncing

Pull latest changes

git pull origin main

Rebase current branch

git pull --rebase origin main

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✅ Staging & Committing

git add .
git commit -m "Your commit message"
git push

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🔍 Status & Log

git status
git log --oneline --graph --all

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🔁 Undo

git reset HEAD~1       # Undo last commit, keep changes
git checkout .         # Discard all unstaged changes
git clean -fd          # Remove untracked files/folders

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🔀 Merging & Rebasing

git merge feature-branch
git rebase main

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🚀 Pull Requests (via gh)

gh pr create --base main --head feature-branch --title "PR title" --body "PR description"
gh pr view --web
gh pr checkout 123

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🧪 GitHub Actions

gh workflow list
gh run list
gh run watch <run-id>

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🔒 SSH Setup

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "you@example.com"
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Add the key to GitHub → Settings → SSH and GPG keys

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🕒 Cron Example for Repo Backup (Linux/macOS)

crontab -e

Add line to pull daily:

0 2 * * * cd /path/to/repo && git pull >> ~/git-sync.log 2>&1

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📦 Submodules

git submodule add https://github.com/user/lib.git lib
git submodule update --init --recursive

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📤 GitHub Release (via gh)

gh release create v1.0.0 ./build.zip --title "Release v1.0.0" --notes "First stable release"

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📚 Resources

• GitHub CLI Docs
• Git Handbook

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✍️ Author: \ Jamaurice Holt