gh issue create

gh issue create [flags]

Create an issue on GitHub.

Adding an issue to projects requires authorization with theprojectscope. To authorize, rungh auth refresh -s project.

Options

-a, --assignee <login>
Assign people by their login. Use "@me" to self-assign.
-b, --body <string>
Supply a body. Will prompt for one otherwise.
-F, --body-file <file>
Read body text from file (use "-" to read from standard input)
-e, --editor
Skip prompts and open the text editor to write the title and body in. The first line is the title and the remaining text is the body.
-l, --label <name>
Add labels by name
-m, --milestone <name>
Add the issue to a milestone by name
-p, --project <title>
Add the issue to projects by title
--recover <string>
Recover input from a failed run of create
-T, --template <file>
Template file to use as starting body text
-t, --title <string>
Supply a title. Will prompt for one otherwise.
-w, --web
Open the browser to create an issue

Options inherited from parent commands

-R, --repo <[HOST/]OWNER/REPO>
Select another repository using the [HOST/]OWNER/REPO format

ALIASES

gh issue new

Examples

$gh issue create--title"I found a bug"--body"Nothing works"
$gh issue create--label"bug,help wanted"
$gh issue create--labelbug--label"help wanted"
$gh issue create--assigneemonalisa,hubot
$gh issue create--assignee"@me"
$gh issue create--project"Roadmap"
$gh issue create--template"bug_report.md"

See also

In use

Interactively

# Create an issue interactively
~/Projects/my-project$ gh issue create
Creating issue in owner/repo
?TitleMy new issue
?Body[(e) to launch nano, enter to skip]
http://github.com/owner/repo/issues/1
~/Projects/my-project$

With flags

# Create an issue using flags
~/Projects/my-project$ gh issue create --title "Issue title" --body "Issue body"
http://github.com/owner/repo/issues/1
~/Projects/my-project$

In the browser

// Quickly navigate to the issue creation page
~/Projects/my-project$ gh issue create --web
Opening https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/new in your browser.
~/Projects/my-project$