My Nushell aliases for `gh` command

Emre Şahin — 2025-01-29T08:04:19+00:00

Almost every day, I start my work by playing with my configuration. Today, I added aliases for gh (GitHub CLI) to Nushell.

# List issues related to me
export def ghil [] { 
  (gh issue list --search "involves:iesahin" --json title,url) | from json
}

# Add a comment to an issue
export alias ghic = gh issue comment

# Create an issue
export alias ghiC = gh issue create $in

# View an issue
export alias ghiv = gh issue view

# View an issue in the browser
export alias ghiw = gh issue view --web

# List PRs in a table
export def ghpl [] {
  (gh pr list --json "title,url,headRefName" ) | from json
}

# View a PR
export alias ghpv = gh pr view

# View a PR in GitHub
export alias ghpw = gh pr view --web

# Checkout a PR
export alias ghco = gh pr checkout

# Add a comment to a PR
export alias ghpc = gh pr comment

# Show changes in a PR
export alias ghpd = gh pr diff

# Add a review to a PR
export alias ghpR = gh pr review

# Create a PR
export alias ghpC = gh pr create

# Merge a PR to main
export alias ghpM = gh pr merge

# List GH CI runs in a table
export def ghrl [] {
  (gh run list --json conclusion,displayTitle,headBranch,url ) | from json 
}

# View a GH CI run
export alias ghrv = gh run view

# View a GH CI run in the browser
export alias ghrw = gh run view --web 

# View output from a failed run
export alias ghrf = gh run view --log-failed

# Search code and get results in a table
export def ghsc [] { 
  (gh search code $in --json repository,path,textMatches,url) | from json
}

Aliases don’t allow pipes in Nushell, so I used def for those that require them.

When there is an $in parameter in an alias, it expects the input from a pipe. An issue can be created like this, for example:

"Your software sucks" | ghiC

To search for the code copied to the clipboard and get only the URLs, you can use:

pbpaste | ghsc | get url

To open them in different browser windows:

pbpaste | ghsc | get url | each { |u| start $u }

I’ll add a shortcut key for this last one. It’s so quick! :D

SSH Keys for Multiple Accounts on GitHub

Emre Şahin — 2018-11-18T16:18:58+00:00

I have multiple GitHub accounts, and some of these are collaborators on others. I don’t like to enter my password every time I push, so I set up SSH keys for my accounts. However, GitHub (understandably) doesn’t accept the same key for more than one account. (Otherwise, how would it know which account is being used?)

Fortunately, there is a way to use the ~/.ssh/config file to specify different keys for different target URLs.

# Personal account - the default config
Host github.com
   HostName github.com
   User git
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

# Work Account
Host work.github.com
   HostName github.com
   User git
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work

Now you can create another SSH key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work and add it to your work account. When you configure a repository, you need to specify git@work.github.com:user/repo.git as the repository address rather than git@github.com:user/repo.git.

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My Nushell aliases for `gh` command

SSH Keys for Multiple Accounts on GitHub