The Copilot for CLI technical preview ended on March 21, 2024.
GitHub Copilot in the CLI is now generally available.
The terminal is a powerful place: In a single line of arcane shell magic, youcan transform files and parse data at will. But it can take many years ofregular use to become a shell wizard. Even with solid proficiency, most of usregularly need to optimistically type--help
or scroll through man pages.Oftentimes, you simply turn to a web search, hopefully finding something like arelevant StackOverflow answer that can get you to the next step.
What if you had a shell wizard by your side, with comprehensive knowledge of flagsand the entire AWK language? When you needed something morecomplicated thancd myrepo
, you could turn to this guru and justask - inregular, human language, what you wanted to get done!
Three modes of interaction
Copilot for CLI provides three shell commands:??
,git?
andgh?
:
??
is meant as the general-purpose goto for arbitrary shell commands. Itwill compose commands and loops, and throw around obscurefind
flagsto satisfy your query.
git?
is used for searching specifically forgit
invocations. Compared to??
it will be more powerful at generating Git commands, and your queries can bemore succinct when you don't need to explain that you're in the context of Git.
gh?
combines the power of the GitHub CLI command and query interface withthe convenience of having AI generate the complicated flags andjq
expressions for you.