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    Open Repo in Browser using GitHub CLI
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Open Repo in Browser using GitHub CLI

Joe Previte
InstructorJoe Previte
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Published 5 years ago
Updated 3 years ago

Learn how to open a git repo in the browser on github.com using the GitHub CLI. In the folder of your repo, run gh repo view watch to open that repo in your browser. If you haven't done this before, you'll have to run through the login process by following the prompts in your terminal.

To learn more about the GitHub CLI, read the manual.

Instructor: [0:00] First, make sure you have the GitHub CLI installed. You can check by running gh--version. Next, to view the repository in the browser, run ghrepoview--web or -w for short.

[0:21] As you can see, this is a quick way to use the GitHub CLI to open a repository on github.com. To learn more about the powers of the GitHub CLI, head over to CLI.github.com/manual.