gh-issue-create - Man Page

• Create a new issue against the current repository interactively: gh issue create
• Create a new issue with the bug label interactively: gh issue create --label "bug"
• Create a new issue interactively and assign it to the specified users: gh issue create --assignee user1,user2,...
• Create a new issue with a title, body and assign it to the current user: gh issue create --title "title" --body "body" --assignee "@me"
• Create a new issue interactively, reading the body text from a file: gh issue create --body-file path/to/file
• Create a new issue in the default web browser: gh issue create --web
• Display the help: gh issue create --help

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gh issue create [flags]

Create an issue on GitHub.

Adding an issue to projects requires authorization with the project scope. To authorize, run gh auth refresh -s project.

-a, --assignee <login>

Assign people by their login. Use "@me" to self-assign.

-b, --body <string>

Supply a body. Will prompt for one otherwise.

-F, --body-file <file>

Read body text from file (use "-" to read from standard input)

-l, --label <name>

Add labels by name

-m, --milestone <name>

Add the issue to a milestone by name

-p, --project <name>

Add the issue to projects by name

--recover <string>

Recover input from a failed run of create

-T, --template <name>

Template name to use as starting body text

-t, --title <string>

Supply a title. Will prompt for one otherwise.

-w,  --web

Open the browser to create an issue

-R, --repo <[HOST/]OWNER/REPO>

Select another repository using the [HOST/]OWNER/REPO format

$ gh issue create --title "I found a bug" --body "Nothing works"
$ gh issue create --label "bug,help wanted"
$ gh issue create --label bug --label "help wanted"
$ gh issue create --assignee monalisa,hubot
$ gh issue create --assignee "@me"
$ gh issue create --project "Roadmap"

gh-issue(1)

gh-issue(1).