Installing GitHub Copilot in the CLI

Prerequisites

• Access to GitHub Copilot. See What is GitHub Copilot?.
• GitHub CLI installed. Pour obtenir des instructions d’installation pour GitHub CLI, consultez le dépôt GitHub CLI.

If you have access to GitHub Copilot via your organization or enterprise, you cannot use Copilot dans l’interface de ligne de commande CLI if your organization owner or enterprise administrator has disabled Copilot dans l’interface de ligne de commande CLI. See Managing policies for Copilot in your organization.

Installing Copilot dans l’interface de ligne de commande CLI

1. If you have not already authenticated to the GitHub CLI, run the following command in your terminal.

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   gh auth login
   

2. To install the Copilot dans l’interface de ligne de commande CLI extension, run the following command.

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   gh extension install github/gh-copilot
   

Updating Copilot dans l’interface de ligne de commande CLI

After installing the Copilot dans l’interface de ligne de commande CLI extension, you can update at any time by running:

gh extension upgrade gh-copilot

gh extension upgrade gh-copilot

Further reading

• Using GitHub Copilot in the command line
• Configuring GitHub Copilot in the CLI