Launching GitHub Desktop from the command line

You can launch GitHub Desktop from the command line.

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  1. In the menu bar, select the GitHub Desktop menu, then click Install Command Line Tool. Screenshot of the menu bar on a Mac. Under the expanded "GitHub Desktop" dropdown menu, the cursor hovers over "Install command line tool", highlighted in blue.

  2. Open Terminal.

  3. 要对最近打开的存储库启动 GitHub Desktop，请键入 github。 要对特定存储库启动 GitHub Desktop，请键入 github，后跟该存储库的路径。

    github /PATH/TO/REPO

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

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

  1. Open a command prompt.

  2. 要对最近打开的存储库启动 GitHub Desktop，请键入 github。 要对特定存储库启动 GitHub Desktop，请键入 github，后跟该存储库的路径。

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

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

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