I recorded a quick (3 minute) video for a lightning talk introducing hub, a GitHub CLI that I use all the time.

The video is silent, but below is the transcript of what you hear if you heard me give this talk!

Transcript

Today I’m going to introduce a GitHub CLI tool that I use a lot, called Hub.

[0:09] First off, let’s install it. I’m on OSX, so I install it via Homebrew. But if you’re on Windows it can be installed via Chocolatey, or there are packages for various Linux flavors.

[0:22] Once it’s installed we need to do some configuration to make Hub work properly with the U’s Enterprise Github install. We can do that by setting the GITHUB_HOST value.

[0:33] Also nice, if we alias hub to git, then we get all of the git and hub commands by just typing git, which we’re already used to typing.

[0:50] One of those hub commands is clone. A short-hand for checking out a repo. I’m going to use it to get a small project.

[0:58] Once cloned, I can cd into the project. I don’t know what sort of changes this code needs, though. I can use another hub command to find out. browse -- issues will open up the project’s Issues page.

[1:15] Ok, this project needs one small change. I can do that.

[1:23] First, I want to fork this project into my own account. Another hub command helps out here, fork. And now you can see that I have two remotes, my fork and the origin remote.

[1:40] I want to create a new branch, which I do with the default checkout -b command. Like I said earlier, we still have access to all of our familiar git commands.

[1:53] I quickly add the copyright info that the issue requested. Then stage and commitand push it up to my remote.

[2:30] And now another hub command. I use pull-request to create a PR from the command line.

[2:48] With my Pull Request made, I can use browse -- pulls to open up the list of all the project’s PRs.

[2:50] And those are just a few of the features that hub offers contributors. It offers a lot more than I covered here. Check out their site https://hub.github.com fore more!