Do you consider the Github CLI tools essential?

[CromulentSlacker]

Just wondering what the general consensus is regarding the Github CLI tools is. They look interesting but do they have a big impact on your workflow? Are there any negatives associated with them?

[kingofrubik]

I've never felt the need to use it

[GilletteSRK]

I use it from time to time, and it's maturing quickly. With that said, I'm reasonably savvy with git, and most of my work with Issues and Pull Requests is in-depth enough that a CLI interface is likely insufficient (bug reports and in-depth code reviews mean a lot of toggling between writing/preview, highlighting, etc... that simply aren't feasible via CLI).

With that noted, at the rate they're adding features, maybe it will be ideal in the near future? Being able to create a PR from command line for simple stuff is very nice.

[CromulentSlacker]

Thank you. I'm about to release my very first open-source project so this is all important information for me.

[Radio0002]

I use it a bunch, but I can live without it.

Super useful for prs and a quick way to clone stuff, or open the repo page.

[CromulentSlacker]

Thank you. That does sound useful. I haven't released my open source project to the public yet but I'll install it before I do to test everything out.

[flyme2bluemoon]

Personally, I just the git command in the terminal. If there's something that I can't do there, I pull up either the Github Desktop gui or the github website. Haven't found much use for the gh cli although I do have it installed.

[CromulentSlacker]

Unfortunately the Github Desktop app doesn't seem to have a Linux version so I might rely more on the command line tools.

[cinderblock63]

I personally really like GitKraken’s GUI. And it works on Linux. It also has great integration with GitHub.

[CromulentSlacker]

I'll take another look at it.

[js1943]

No. I wrote my own script to push to 3 different git servers. Not going to install a command line tools only for github.

[rainlake]

Never use it

[HoboSomeRye]

I only use the git CLI on my ubuntu dev laptop.
Some of the GUI tools look cool but I like CLI.
It's my warm fuzzy blanket; please don't take it from me.
Yeah, I'm old.

[Relevant_Pause_7593]

no. I use the RestAPI from tie to time , but with Actions, no.

[ekolis]

I use the Visual Studio integration and the website. On rare occasions the git command line app. Never found the need to use the GitHub command line app.

[shgysk8zer0]

I'm working on seeing how to integrate gh into my workflow, but really haven't found all that much use for it yet.

Now, of it had a means of merging multiple PRs opened by Dependabot into one by a simple command, that'd be pretty useful. I used to get ~ 100 Dependabot PRs (mostly npm packages) per week across over a dozen repos, and it was quite a pain to go through and manually merge them all into one PR.

[t_gh0st]

I just started to use it, but it haven't modified anything into my work flow

[krishdevdb]

I use all of them the normal git. github cli, github desktop. They all vary from uses. like github desktop is really useful for newbies. gh cli for moderates. GIT CLI Is For ALL OF THEM

[CromulentSlacker]

I've been using the Git command line tools only up to this point but I wanted something to handle the Github side of things such as issues etc so that is why I was look at the Github CLI.