hub(1)	    ‐‐	    make      git      easier	  with	   GitHub
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## SYNOPSIS

‘hub‘  [‘‐‐noop‘]  <COMMAND>  [<OPTIONS>]  ‘hub   alias‘   [‘‐s‘]
[<SHELL>] ‘hub help‘ hub‐<COMMAND>

## DESCRIPTION

Hub  is  a  tool  that wraps git in order to extend it with extra
functionality that makes it better when working with GitHub.

## COMMANDS

Available commands are split into two groups: those that are  al‐
ready  present in git but that are extended through hub, and cus‐
tom ones that hub provides.

### Extended git commands
  * hub‐am(1):
    Replicate commits from a GitHub pull request locally.

  * hub‐apply(1):
    Download a patch from GitHub and apply it locally.

  * hub‐checkout(1):
    Check out the head of a pull request as a local branch.

  * hub‐cherry‐pick(1):
    Cherry‐pick a commit from a fork on GitHub.

  * hub‐clone(1):
    Clone a repository from GitHub.

  * hub‐fetch(1):
    Add missing remotes prior to performing git fetch.

  * hub‐init(1):
    Initialize a git repository and  add  a  remote  pointing  to
GitHub.

  * hub‐merge(1):
    Merge  a  pull request locally with a message like the GitHub
Merge Button.

  * hub‐push(1):
    Push a git branch to each of the listed remotes.

  * hub‐remote(1):
    Add a git remote for a GitHub repository.

  * hub‐submodule(1):
    Add a git submodule for a GitHub repository.

### New commands provided by hub
  * hub‐alias(1):
    Show shell instructions for wrapping git.

  * hub‐browse(1):
    Open a GitHub repository in a web browser.

  * hub‐ci‐status(1):
    Display GitHub Status information for a commit.

  * hub‐compare(1):
    Open a GitHub compare page in a web browser.

  * hub‐create(1):
    Create a new repository on GitHub and add a  git  remote  for
it.

  * hub‐delete(1):
    Delete a repository on Github.

  * hub‐fork(1):
    Fork  the  current project on GitHub and add a git remote for
it.

  * hub‐pull‐request(1):
    Create a GitHub pull request.

  * hub‐pr(1):
    List and checkout GitHub pull requests.

  * hub‐issue(1):
    List and create GitHub issues.

  * hub‐release(1):
    List and create GitHub releases.

  * hub‐sync(1):
    Fetch from upstream and update local branches.

## CONFIGURATION

### GitHub OAuth authentication

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.

Alternatively,	you  may  provide ‘GITHUB_TOKEN‘, an access token
with **repo** permissions. This will not be written  to  ‘~/.con‐
fig/hub‘.

### HTTPS instead of git protocol

If you prefer the HTTPS protocol for git operations, you can con‐
figure hub to generate all URLs with ‘https:‘ instead  of  ‘git:‘
or ‘ssh:‘:

    $ git config ‐‐global hub.protocol https

This will affect ‘clone‘, ‘fork‘, ‘remote add‘ and other hub com‐
mands that expand shorthand references to GitHub repo URLs.

### GitHub Enterprise

By default, hub will only work with repositories  that	have  re‐
motes  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‘ en‐
vironment variable:

    $ GITHUB_HOST=my.git.org git clone myproject

### Environment variables

  * ‘HUB_VERBOSE‘:
    Enable verbose output from hub commands.

  * ‘HUB_CONFIG‘:
    The  file  path  where  hub  configuration	is  read from and
stored. If
    ‘XDG_CONFIG_HOME‘  is  present,  the  default  is  ‘$XDG_CON‐
FIG_HOME/hub‘;
    otherwise it’s ‘$HOME/.config/hub‘. The configuration file is
also
    searched for in  ‘XDG_CONFIG_DIRS‘	per  XDG  Base	Directory
Specification.

  * ‘HUB_PROTOCOL‘:
    Use  one  of  "https|ssh|git"  as  preferred protocol for git
clone/push.

  * ‘GITHUB_TOKEN‘:
    OAuth token to use for GitHub API requests.

## 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),
<https://github.com/github/hub>





























