gh auth setup-git
gh auth setup-git [flags]
This command configures git to use GitHub CLI as a credential helper. For more information on git credential helpers please reference: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials.
By default, GitHub CLI will be set as the credential helper for all authenticated hosts. If there is no authenticated hosts the command fails with an error.
Alternatively, use the --hostname flag to specify a single host to be configured.
If the host is not authenticated with, the command fails with an error.
Options
-h,--hostname <string>- The hostname to configure git for
Examples
# Configure git to use GitHub CLI as the credential helper for all authenticated hosts
$ gh auth setup-git
# Configure git to use GitHub CLI as the credential helper for enterprise.internal host
$ gh auth setup-git --hostname enterprise.internal