The right way, wrong way and the CLI way is a session done by @suvink at the GitHub Universe Watch Party Sri Lanka 2022.

2. HELLO,
I’m Suvin! (he/him)
GitHub Campus Expert
University of Colombo School of Computing

3. ● What is a CLI and how it works
● “gh”
● Live CLI-ing
● Recap
Session
Outline.

4. What is a CLI?

5. A text-based interface used to
interact with the computer.
󰞦 What is a CLI?

6. GUI vs. CLI
A quick example

7. 👎 The GUI way.
Image credits: Firebase Blog and Digital Design and Development Club

8. 👍 The CLI way.
Image credits: Flaviocopes

9. Yes that was
Firebase, and how
about…
?

10. brew install gh | sudo apt install gh | choco install gh

11. ● View, create, clone, and fork
repositories.
● Create, close, edit, and view issues
and pull requests.
● Review, diff, and merge pull requests
● Run, view, and list workflows.
● Create, list, view, and delete releases.
● Create, edit, list, view, and delete
gists.
● List, create, delete, and connect to a
codespace.
What can
we do?

12. ● View, create, clone, and fork
repositories.
● Create, close, edit, and view issues
and pull requests.
● Review, diff, and merge pull requests
● Run, view, and list workflows.
● Create, list, view, and delete releases.
● Create, edit, list, view, and delete
gists.
● List, create, delete, and connect to a
codespace.
What can
we do?

13. Everything is just a “gh”
away!
Image credits: Opera News

14. Let’s gh!
Image credits: Apple Newsroom

15. Assume there is an
assignment.
We need to submit it before 20th
November

16. FORK
gh repo fork nandulaperera/git-demo

17. CREATE AN ISSUE
gh issue create --label bug
If the issues are disabled,
gh repo edit --enable-issues

18. CREATE A
PULL REQUEST
gh pr create

19. MERGE A
PULL REQUEST
gh pr merge <pr_number>

20. That’s the CLI
way!
Image credits: 2dots.xyz

21. ● A CLI is a text-based interface used to
interact with the computer.
● “gh” is the GitHub’s command line
tool.
● Live Demo
○ Foked
○ Created issues,
○ Created PRs
○ Merged PRs
Let’s
Recap.

22. More
Resources.
https://bit.ly/suvink-gh-universe-resources

23. Questions?
Image credits: SOTI