HUB(1)

NAME
hub - git + hub = github

SYNOPSIS
hub [--noop] COMMAND OPTIONS
hub alias [-s] [SHELL]

  Expanded git commands:
git init -g OPTIONS
git clone [-p] OPTIONS [USER/]REPOSITORY DIRECTORY
git remote add [-p] OPTIONS USER[/REPOSITORY]
git remote set-url [-p] OPTIONS REMOTE-NAME USER[/REPOSITORY]
git fetch USER-1,[USER-2,...]
git checkout PULLREQ-URL [BRANCH]
git merge PULLREQ-URL
git cherry-pick GITHUB-REF
git am GITHUB-URL
git apply GITHUB-URL
git push REMOTE-1,REMOTE-2,...,REMOTE-N [REF]
git submodule add [-p] OPTIONS [USER/]REPOSITORY DIRECTORY

  Custom git commands:
git create [NAME] [-p] [-d DESCRIPTION] [-h HOMEPAGE]
git browse [-u] [[USER/]REPOSITORY] [SUBPAGE]
git compare [-u] [USER] [[START...]END]
git fork [--no-remote]
git pull-request [-o|--browse] [-f] [-m MESSAGE|-F FILE|-i ISSUE|ISSUE-URL] [-b BASE] [-h HEAD]
git ci-status [-v] [COMMIT]

DESCRIPTION
hub enhances various git commands to ease most common workflows with GitHub.

hub --noop COMMAND
    Shows which command(s) would be run as a result of the current command. Doesn't perform anything.

hub alias [-s] [SHELL]
    Shows shell instructions for wrapping git. If given, SHELL specifies the type of shell; otherwise defaults to the value of SHELL environment variable. With -s, outputs shell script suitable for eval.

git init -g OPTIONS
    Create a git repository as with git-init(1) and add remote origin at "git@github.com:USER/REPOSITORY.git"; USER is your GitHub username and REPOSITORY is the current working directory's basename.

git clone [-p] OPTIONS [USER/]REPOSITORY DIRECTORY
    Clone repository "git://github.com/USER/REPOSITORY.git" into DIRECTORY as with git-clone(1). When USER/ is omitted, assumes your GitHub login.

    If the repository is private or the current user has push access to the repository, hub will use the ssh protocol for cloning. Use -p to select the ssh protocol unconditionally. HTTPS protocol can be used instead by setting "hub.protocol" (see CONFIGURATION).

git remote add [-p] OPTIONS USER[/REPOSITORY]
    Add remote "git://github.com/USER/REPOSITORY.git" as with git-remote(1). When /REPOSITORY is omitted, the basename of the current working directory is used. With -p, use private remote "git@github.com:USER/REPOSITORY.git". If USER is "origin" then uses your GitHub login.

git remote set-url [-p] OPTIONS REMOTE-NAME USER[/REPOSITORY]
    Sets the url of remote REMOTE-NAME using the same rules as git remote add.

git fetch USER-1,[USER-2,...]
    Adds missing remote(s) with git remote add prior to fetching. New remotes are only added if they correspond to valid forks on GitHub.

git checkout PULLREQ-URL [BRANCH]
    Checks out the head of the pull request as a local branch, to allow for reviewing, rebasing and otherwise cleaning up the commits in the pull request before merging. The name of the local branch can explicitly be set with BRANCH.

git merge PULLREQ-URL
    Merge the pull request with a commit message that includes the pull request ID and title, similar to the GitHub Merge Button.

git cherry-pick GITHUB-REF
    Cherry-pick a commit from a fork using either full URL to the commit or GitHub-flavored Markdown notation, which is user@sha. If the remote doesn't yet exist, it will be added. A git fetch <user> is issued prior to the cherry-pick attempt.

git [am|apply] GITHUB-URL
    Downloads the patch file for the pull request or commit at the URL and applies that patch from disk with git am or git apply. Similar to cherry-pick, but doesn't add new remotes. git am creates commits while preserving authorship info while apply only applies the patch to the working copy.

git push REMOTE-1,REMOTE-2,...,REMOTE-N [REF]
    Push REF to each of REMOTE-1 through REMOTE-N by executing multiple git push commands.

git submodule add [-p] OPTIONS [USER/]REPOSITORY DIRECTORY
    Submodule repository "git://github.com/USER/REPOSITORY.git" into DIRECTORY as with git-submodule(1). When USER/ is omitted, assumes your GitHub login. With -p, use private remote "git@github.com:USER/REPOSITORY.git".

git help
    Display enhanced git-help(1).

hub also adds some custom commands that are otherwise not present in git:

git create [NAME] [-p] [-d DESCRIPTION] [-h HOMEPAGE]
    Create a new public GitHub repository from the current git repository and add remote origin at "git@github.com:USER/REPOSITORY.git"; USER is your GitHub username and REPOSITORY is the current working directory name. To explicitly name the new repository, pass in NAME, optionally in ORGANIZATION/NAME form to create under an organization you're a member of. With -p, create a private repository, and with -d and -h set the repository's description and homepage URL, respectively.

git browse [-u] [[USER/]REPOSITORY] [SUBPAGE]
    Open repository's GitHub page in the system's default web browser using open(1) or the BROWSER env variable. If the repository isn't specified, browse opens the page of the repository found in the current directory. If SUBPAGE is specified, the browser will open on the specified subpage: one of "wiki", "commits", "issues" or other (the default is "tree"). With -u, outputs the URL rather than opening the browser.

git compare [-u] [USER] [[START...]END]
    Open a GitHub compare view page in the system's default web browser. START to END are branch names, tag names, or commit SHA1s specifying the range of history to compare. If a range with two dots (a..b) is given, it will be transformed into one with three dots. If START is omitted, GitHub will compare against the base branch (the default is "master"). If END is omitted, GitHub compare view is opened for the current branch. With -u, outputs the URL rather than opening the browser.

git fork [--no-remote]
    Forks the original project (referenced by "origin" remote) on GitHub and adds a new remote for it under your username.

git pull-request [-o|--browse] [-f] [-m MESSAGE|-F FILE|-i ISSUE|ISSUE-URL] [-b BASE] [-h HEAD]
    Opens a pull request on GitHub for the project that the "origin" remote points to. The default head of the pull request is the current branch. Both base and head of the pull request can be explicitly given in one of the following formats: "branch", "owner:branch", "owner/repo:branch". This command will abort operation if it detects that the current topic branch has local commits that are not yet pushed to its upstream branch on the remote. To skip this check, use -f.

    Without MESSAGE or FILE, a text editor will open in which title and body of the pull request can be entered in the same manner as git commit message. Pull request message can also be passed via stdin with -F -.

    With -o or --browse, the new pull request will open in the web browser.

    Issue to pull request conversion via -i <ISSUE> or ISSUE-URL arguments is deprecated and will likely be removed from the future versions of both hub and GitHub API.

git ci-status [-v] [COMMIT]
    Looks up the SHA for COMMIT in GitHub Status API and displays the latest status. Exits with one of:
    success (0), error (1), failure (1), pending (2), no status (3)

    If -v is given, additionally print the URL to CI build results.

CONFIGURATION
Hub will prompt for GitHub username & password the first time it needs to access the API and exchange it for an OAuth token, which it saves in "~/.config/hub".

To avoid being prompted, use GITHUB_USER and GITHUB_PASSWORD environment variables.

If you prefer the HTTPS protocol for GitHub repositories, you can set "hub.protocol" to "https". This will affect clone, fork, remote add and other operations that expand references to GitHub repositories as full URLs that otherwise use git and ssh protocols.

    $ git config --global hub.protocol https

  GitHub Enterprise
By default, hub will only work with repositories that have remotes which point to github.com. GitHub Enterprise hosts need to be whitelisted to configure hub to treat such remotes same as github.com:

    $ git config --global --add hub.host my.git.org

The default host for commands like init and clone is still github.com, but this can be affected with the GITHUB_HOST environment variable:

    $ GITHUB_HOST=my.git.org git clone myproject

EXAMPLES

  git clone
$ git clone schacon/ticgit
> git clone git://github.com/schacon/ticgit.git
$ git clone -p schacon/ticgit
> git clone git@github.com:schacon/ticgit.git
$ git clone resque
> git clone git@github.com/YOUR_USER/resque.git

  git remote add
$ git remote add rtomayko
> git remote add rtomayko git://github.com/rtomayko/CURRENT_REPO.git
$ git remote add -p rtomayko
> git remote add rtomayko git@github.com:rtomayko/CURRENT_REPO.git
$ git remote add origin
> git remote add origin git://github.com/YOUR_USER/CURRENT_REPO.git

  git fetch
$ git fetch mislav
> git remote add mislav git://github.com/mislav/REPO.git
> git fetch mislav
$ git fetch mislav,xoebus
> git remote add mislav ...
> git remote add xoebus ...
> git fetch --multiple mislav xoebus

  git cherry-pick
$ git cherry-pick http://github.com/mislav/REPO/commit/SHA
> git remote add -f mislav git://github.com/mislav/REPO.git
> git cherry-pick SHA
$ git cherry-pick mislav@SHA
> git remote add -f mislav git://github.com/mislav/CURRENT_REPO.git
> git cherry-pick SHA
$ git cherry-pick mislav@SHA
> git fetch mislav
> git cherry-pick SHA

  git am, git apply
$ git am https://github.com/defunkt/hub/pull/55
[ downloads patch via API ]
> git am /tmp/55.patch
$ git am --ignore-whitespace https://github.com/davidbalbert/hub/commit/fdb9921
[ downloads patch via API ]
> git am --ignore-whitespace /tmp/fdb9921.patch
$ git apply https://gist.github.com/8da7fb575debd88c54cf
[ downloads patch via API ]
> git apply /tmp/gist-8da7fb575debd88c54cf.txt

  git fork
$ git fork
[ repo forked on GitHub ]
> git remote add -f YOUR_USER git@github.com:YOUR_USER/CURRENT_REPO.git

  git pull-request
# while on a topic branch called "feature":
$ git pull-request
[ opens text editor to edit title & body for the request ]
[ opened pull request on GitHub for "YOUR_USER:feature" ]
# explicit title, pull base & head:
$ git pull-request -m "Implemented feature X" -b defunkt:master -h mislav:feature

  git checkout
$ git checkout https://github.com/defunkt/hub/pull/73
> git remote add -f -t feature git://github:com/mislav/hub.git
> git checkout --track -B mislav-feature mislav/feature
$ git checkout https://github.com/defunkt/hub/pull/73 custom-branch-name

  git merge
$ git merge https://github.com/defunkt/hub/pull/73
> git fetch git://github.com/mislav/hub.git +refs/heads/feature:refs/remotes/mislav/feature
> git merge mislav/feature --no-ff -m 'Merge pull request #73 from mislav/feature...'

  git create
$ git create
[ repo created on GitHub ]
> git remote add origin git@github.com:YOUR_USER/CURRENT_REPO.git
# with description:
$ git create -d 'It shall be mine, all mine!'
$ git create recipes
[ repo created on GitHub ]
> git remote add origin git@github.com:YOUR_USER/recipes.git
$ git create sinatra/recipes
[ repo created in GitHub organization ]
> git remote add origin git@github.com:sinatra/recipes.git

  git init
$ git init -g
> git init
> git remote add origin git@github.com:YOUR_USER/REPO.git

  git push
$ git push origin,staging,qa bert_timeout
> git push origin bert_timeout
> git push staging bert_timeout
> git push qa bert_timeout

  git browse
$ git browse
> open https://github.com/YOUR_USER/CURRENT_REPO
$ git browse -- commit/SHA
> open https://github.com/YOUR_USER/CURRENT_REPO/commit/SHA
$ git browse -- issues
> open https://github.com/YOUR_USER/CURRENT_REPO/issues
$ git browse schacon/ticgit
> open https://github.com/schacon/ticgit
$ git browse schacon/ticgit commit/SHA
> open https://github.com/schacon/ticgit/commit/SHA
$ git browse resque
> open https://github.com/YOUR_USER/resque
$ git browse resque network
> open https://github.com/YOUR_USER/resque/network

  git compare
$ git compare refactor
> open https://github.com/CURRENT_REPO/compare/refactor
$ git compare 1.0..1.1
> open https://github.com/CURRENT_REPO/compare/1.0...1.1
$ git compare -u fix
> (https://github.com/CURRENT_REPO/compare/fix)
$ git compare other-user patch
> open https://github.com/other-user/REPO/compare/patch

  git submodule
$ git submodule add wycats/bundler vendor/bundler
> git submodule add git://github.com/wycats/bundler.git vendor/bundler
$ git submodule add -p wycats/bundler vendor/bundler
> git submodule add git@github.com:wycats/bundler.git vendor/bundler
$ git submodule add -b ryppl --name pip ryppl/pip vendor/pip
> git submodule add -b ryppl --name pip git://github.com/ryppl/pip.git vendor/pip

  git ci-status
$ git ci-status [commit]
> (prints CI state of commit and exits with appropriate code)
> One of: success (0), error (1), failure (1), pending (2), no status (3)

  git help
$ git help
> (improved git help)
$ git help hub
> (hub man page)

BUGS
https://github.com/github/hub/issues

AUTHORS
https://github.com/github/hub/contributors

SEE ALSO
git(1), git-clone(1), git-remote(1), git-init(1), http://github.com, https://github.com/github/hub