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gh auth

Authenticate with a GitHub host. More information: https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_auth.
  • Log in with interactive prompt:
    gh auth login
  • Log in with a token from stdin (created in https://github.com/settings/tokens):
    echo {{your_token}} | gh auth login --with-token
  • Check if you are logged in:
    gh auth status
  • Log out:
    gh auth logout
  • Log in with a specific GitHub Enterprise Server:
    gh auth login --hostname {{github.example.com}}
  • Refresh the session to ensure authentication credentials have the correct minimum scopes (removes additional scopes requested previously):
    gh auth refresh
  • Expand the permission scopes:
    gh auth refresh --scopes {{repo,admin:repo_hook,admin:org,admin:public_key,admin:org_hook,...}}

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