In the menu bar, select theGitHub Desktop menu, then clickInstall Command Line Tool.

Open Terminal.

To launch GitHub Desktop to the last opened repository, typegithub. To launch GitHub Desktop for a particular repository, typegithub followed by the path to the repository.

github /PATH/TO/REPO

You can also change to your repository path and then typegithub . to open that repository.

$cd /PATH/TO/REPO[repo]$github .

Open a command prompt.

To launch GitHub Desktop to the last opened repository, typegithub. To launch GitHub Desktop for a particular repository, typegithub followed by the path to the repository.

C:\Users\octocat> github PATH\TO\REPO

You can also change to your repository path and then typegithub . to open that repository.

C:\Users\octocat> cd REPO\MY-REPOC:\Users\octocat\repo\myrepo> github .