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A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.

v2.3.0

6 years ago

This is a long-awaited release of hub with an abudance of new features. Thank you everyone for testing out prereleases, reporting bugs, and submitting pull requests! The work of 76 contributors went into this release. ✨

To upgrade hub on macOS, run brew upgrade hub. Alternatively, you can download one of the provided precompiled binaries. See other installation methods.

New commands

hub issue: list and create issues and labels

Usage: hub issue [-a <ASSIGNEE>] [-c <CREATOR>] [-@ <USER>] [-s <STATE>] [-f <FORMAT>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>] [-d <DATE>] [-o <SORT_KEY> [-^]] [-L <LIMIT>]
       hub issue create [-oc] [-m <MESSAGE>|-F <FILE>] [-a <USERS>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>]
       hub issue labels [--color]

hub pr list: list pull requests for the current repository
hub pr checkout <NUMBER>: checkout a pull request by its number

hub release: list, create, edit, and delete releases and attachments

Usage: hub release [--include-drafts] [--exclude-prereleases] [-L <LIMIT>]
       hub release show <TAG>
       hub release create [-dpoc] [-a <FILE>] [-m <MESSAGE>|-F <FILE>] [-t <TARGET>] <TAG>
       hub release edit [<options>] <TAG>
       hub release delete <TAG>

hub sync: fetch updates from remote repository and sync all local branches to their upstream equivalents, purging merged ones

Improved commands

hub pull-request now has the ability to set assignees, labels, reviewers, and milestones.

Usage: hub pull-request [-focp] [-b <BASE>] [-h <HEAD>] [-r <REVIEWERS> ] [-a <ASSIGNEES>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>]
       hub pull-request -m <MESSAGE>
       hub pull-request -F <FILE> [--edit]
       hub pull-request -i <ISSUE>

hub pull-request and hub issue create now support pull request and issue templates.
Commands that print the resulting URL, such as hub pull-request or hub create, now accept --copy to put the URL to the system clipboard instead.
hub pull-request --push pushes the head branch to the remote before opening the pull request.
hub pull-request now strips away the Signed-off-by line and the commit signature when generating the default pull request message.
Commands that take input via -m or -F arguments now also respect --edit to additionally edit the text in a text editor before submitting.
Support core.commentchar=auto git configuration when editing pull request/issue/release message in a text editor.
Support /OWNER/REPO/pull/XYZ/commits/SHA format of URLs as argument to cherry-pick, am, and apply.
Commands such as cherry-pick, merge <PR-URL>, and checkout <PR-URL> don't leave leftover git remotes anymore.
New hub compare -b BASE flag.
New hub fork --org=ORGANIZATION flag.
New hub fork --remote-name=NAME flag to configure the new git remote.
New, manpage-based help system; see hub help hub and hub help hub-<command>.
Added fish shell completion script.
When prompted to authenticate with username/password, pasting a Personal Access Token now works just as well instead of the password.

v2.3.0-pre10

6 years ago

Add hub release --exclude-prereleases
Add hub fork --remote-name=NAME
Add hub pr checkout 123 as alternative to hub checkout https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/pull/123
Add hub pull-request -r PERSON1,PERSON2 to request reviewers
Avoid warning message from vim when stdin was piped to hub pull-request or hub issue create
Fix crash in WorkdirName when within bare git repo
Fix git --(exec|html|man|info)-path
Show hub version even if git version fails

v2.3.0-pre9

7 years ago

Features:

Add hub pull-request --push
Add hub issue --include-pulls
Add hub fork --org=ORGANIZATION parameter
Set upstream merge configuration on hub checkout <PR-URL>
Add clipboard copy -c to browse command
Add fish shell completion script

Tweaks:

vim: use --cmd instead of -c to set default filetype
Check if config location is writeable before authenticating
Do not expand aliases which are in-built git and hub commands
Fix issue & pull request template lookup when in a local subdirectory

v2.3.0-pre1

7 years ago

New hub compare -b|--base BASE flag

New stable command issue to list and create issues:

Usage: hub issue [-a <ASSIGNEE>] [-c <CREATOR>] [-@ <USER] [-s <STATE>] [-f <FORMAT>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>] [-t <TIME>]
       hub issue create [-o] [-m <MESSAGE>|-F <FILE>] [-a <USERS>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>]

New stable command: release to list, create, and edit releases:

Usage: hub release [--include-drafts]
       hub release show <TAG>
       hub release create [-dp] [-a <FILE>] [-m <MESSAGE>|-F <FILE>] [-c <TARGET>] <TAG>
       hub release edit [<options>] <TAG>

Support setting milestone, labels, assignees in pull-request.

Usage: hub pull-request [-fo] [-b <BASE>] [-h <HEAD>] [-a <USERS>] [-M <MILESTONE>] [-l <LABELS>]
       hub pull-request -m <MESSAGE>
       hub pull-request -F <FILE> [--edit]
       hub pull-request -i <ISSUE>

Support repo-specific issue and pull request templates.
Commands that take message from -F filename now support --edit option to additionally process it in a text editor. This allows passing in a custom template text that can be edited before submitting.
Reimplement checkout to avoid adding new git remotes.
New man page-based help system: hub help hub-<command>

v2.3.0-pre2

7 years ago

Fix script to precompile binaries

v2.3.0-pre8

7 years ago

Same fixes as in v2.2.9, plus:

New hub sync command to fetch from remote and update or prune local branches

Add sorting options to hub issue

$ hub issue --sort comments --sort-ascending

Support PR commit URLs in cherry-pick

Check out the roadmap of new features in the next big release of hub.

Other tweaks:

Avoid leaving git remotes after hub cherry-pick
Improve hub merge to not generate leftover remote refs
Reuse existing git remote for PR head in checkout
Fix checkout for unavailable fork

v2.2.9

7 years ago

Ensure that HUB_VERBOSE logging always happens in Exec()
Ensure that "command not found" error is printed on stderr on failure

v2.2.8

7 years ago

Fix Windows compilation issue
Provide prebuilt binaries for Linux ARM

v2.3.0-pre6

7 years ago

Fix Windows compilation issue

v2.3.0-pre5

7 years ago

Same fixes as in 2.2.7, plus:

Rename the release create --commitish shorthand from -c to -t
Change hub create to output the URL of the new repository
Copy to clipboard flag for create, issue create, pull-request, release create
Fix 2FA prompt alignment in the terminal