GitHub CLI Issues and Actions

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Issue triage plus GitHub Actions workflows, runs, secrets, variables, and caches.

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Issues

Create, edit, assign, and close issues.

List issues

List open issues.

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bashANYissuelist

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gh issue list

List open issues.

View an issue

Show issue details.

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bashANYissueview

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gh issue view 123

Show issue details.

Create an issue

Create an issue with title and body.

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bashANYissuecreate

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gh issue create --title "Bug: login fails" --body "Steps to reproduce..."

Create an issue with title and body.

Create issue with labels and assignee

Create an issue with metadata.

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bashANYissuecreate

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gh issue create --title "Upgrade Node" --label tech-debt --assignee @me

Create an issue with metadata.

Edit an issue

Edit issue labels, assignees, and milestone.

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bashANYissueedit

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gh issue edit 123 --add-label bug --remove-label needs-triage

Edit issue labels, assignees, and milestone.

Comment on an issue

Add an issue comment.

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bashANYissuecomment

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gh issue comment 123 --body "Investigating now."

Add an issue comment.

Close an issue

Close an issue and leave a comment.

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bashANYissueclose

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gh issue close 123 --comment "Fixed in #456"

Close an issue and leave a comment.

Reopen an issue

Reopen a closed issue.

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bashANYissuereopen

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gh issue reopen 123

Reopen a closed issue.

Pin an issue

Pin an issue in the repository.

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bashANYissuepin

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gh issue pin 123

Pin an issue in the repository.

Unpin an issue

Unpin a previously pinned issue.

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bashANYissuepin

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gh issue unpin 123

Unpin a previously pinned issue.

Lock an issue

Lock issue conversation.

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bashANYissuelock

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gh issue lock 123 --reason resolved

Lock issue conversation.

Unlock an issue

Unlock issue conversation.

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bashANYissuelock

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gh issue unlock 123

Unlock issue conversation.

Show issue status

Show issues assigned to you, mentioned, or created by you.

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bashANYissuestatus

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gh issue status

Show issues assigned to you, mentioned, or created by you.

Create a label

Create a repository label.

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bashANYlabelcreate

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gh label create "customer-impact" --color FF0000 --description "Affects customers"

Create a repository label.

Clone labels from another repo

Copy labels from another repository.

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bashANYlabelclone

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gh label clone octo-org/source-repo

Copy labels from another repository.

Delete a label

Delete a label without prompting.

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bashANYlabeldelete

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gh label delete "old-label" --yes

Delete a label without prompting.

GitHub Actions and Workflows

List, run, rerun, and inspect workflows and runs.

List workflows

List workflows in the current repository.

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bashANYactionsworkflow

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gh workflow list

List workflows in the current repository.

View workflow details

Show details for a workflow.

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bashANYactionsworkflow

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gh workflow view "CI"

Show details for a workflow.

Trigger a workflow

Dispatch a workflow with inputs.

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bashANYactionsworkflowdispatch

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gh workflow run deploy.yml -f environment=staging

Dispatch a workflow with inputs.

Enable a workflow

Enable a disabled workflow.

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bashANYactionsworkflow

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gh workflow enable deploy.yml

Enable a disabled workflow.

Disable a workflow

Disable a workflow.

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bashANYactionsworkflow

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gh workflow disable deploy.yml

Disable a workflow.

List workflow runs

List recent workflow runs.

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bashANYactionsrun

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gh run list --limit 50

List recent workflow runs.

View a run

Show status and jobs for a workflow run.

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bashANYactionsrun

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gh run view 123456789

Show status and jobs for a workflow run.

View run log

Print logs for a workflow run.

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bashANYactionsrunlogs

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gh run view 123456789 --log

Print logs for a workflow run.

Watch a run live

Follow a workflow run until completion.

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bashANYactionsrunwatch

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gh run watch 123456789

Follow a workflow run until completion.

Download run artifacts

Download artifacts for a workflow run.

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bashANYactionsrunartifacts

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gh run download 123456789 -D ./artifacts

Download artifacts for a workflow run.

Rerun failed jobs

Rerun failed jobs from a workflow run.

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bashANYactionsrunrerun

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gh run rerun 123456789 --failed

Rerun failed jobs from a workflow run.

Cancel a run

Cancel an in-progress workflow run.

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bashANYactionsruncancel

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gh run cancel 123456789

Cancel an in-progress workflow run.

List Actions caches

List GitHub Actions caches.

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bashANYactionscache

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gh cache list

List GitHub Actions caches.

Delete an Actions cache

Delete an Actions cache by key.

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bashANYactionscache

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gh cache delete my-key

Delete an Actions cache by key.

List repo secrets

List Actions secrets for the repo.

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bashANYactionssecret

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gh secret list

List Actions secrets for the repo.

Set repo secret

Create or update a repository secret from stdin.

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bashANYactionssecret

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gh secret set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID < aws_access_key_id.txt

Create or update a repository secret from stdin.

List Actions variables

List repository variables.

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bashANYactionsvariable

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gh variable list

List repository variables.

Set repository variable

Create or update a repository variable.

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bashANYactionsvariable

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gh variable set APP_ENV --body production

Create or update a repository variable.

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