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GH-ISSUE-CREATE(1) GitHub CLI manual GH-ISSUE-CREATE(1)

NAME

gh-issue-create - Create a new issue

SYNOPSIS

gh issue create [flags]

DESCRIPTION

Create an issue on GitHub.

Adding an issue to projects requires authorization with the project scope. To authorize, run gh auth refresh -s project.

OPTIONS

Assign people by their login. Use "@me" to self-assign.

Supply a body. Will prompt for one otherwise.

Read body text from file (use "-" to read from standard input)

Skip prompts and open the text editor to write the title and body in. The first line is the title and the rest text is the body.

Add labels by name

Add the issue to a milestone by name

Add the issue to projects by name

Recover input from a failed run of create

Template name to use as starting body text

Supply a title. Will prompt for one otherwise.

Open the browser to create an issue

OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

Select another repository using the [HOST/]OWNER/REPO format

ALIASES

gh issue new

EXAMPLE

$ gh issue create --title "I found a bug" --body "Nothing works"
$ gh issue create --label "bug,help wanted"
$ gh issue create --label bug --label "help wanted"
$ gh issue create --assignee monalisa,hubot
$ gh issue create --assignee "@me"
$ gh issue create --project "Roadmap"

SEE ALSO

gh-issue(1)

Jul 2024 GitHub CLI v2.53.0