GLab is an open source Gitlab Cli tool written in Go (golang) to help work seamlessly with Gitlab from the command line. Work with issues, merge requests, watch running pipelines directly from your CLI among other features.

Usage

glab <command> <subcommand> [flags]

Core Commands

• glab mr [list, create, close, reopen, delete]
• glab issue [list, create, close, reopen, delete]
• glab pipeline [list, delete, ci status, ci view]
• glab config
• glab help

Examples

$ glab issue create --title="This is an issue title" --description="This is a really long description"
$ glab issue list --closed
$ glab pipeline ci view -b master    # to watch the latest pipeline on master
$ glab pipeline status    # classic ci view

Learn More

Read the documentation for more information on this tool.

Installation

Download a binary suitable for your OS at the releases page.

Quick Install (Bash)

You can install or update glab with:

curl -sL https://j.mp/glab-i | sudo bash

or

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/profclems/glab/trunk/scripts/quick_install.sh | sudo bash

Installs into usr/local/bin

Windows

Available for download on scoop or manually as an installable executable file or a Portable archived file in tar and zip formats at the releases page. Download and install now at the releases page.

The installable executable file sets the PATH automatically.

Scoop

scoop bucket add profclems-bucket https://github.com/profclems/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install glab

Linux

Downloads available via linuxbrew (homebrew) and tar balls

Linuxbrew (Homebrew)

brew install profclems/tap/glab

Updating:

brew upgrade glab

Arch Linux

glab is available through the gitlab-glab-bin package on the AUR.

Manual Installation

Download the tar ball, untar and install:

1. Download the .tar.gz file from the releases page
2. unzip glab-*-linux-amd64.tar.gz to unzip the downloaded file
3. sudo mv glab-*-linux-amd64/glab /usr/bin

MacOS

glab is available via Homebrew or you can manually install

Homebrew

brew install profclems/tap/glab

Updating:

brew upgrade glab

Installing manually

1. Download the .tar.gz or .zip file from the releases page and unzip or untar
2. ls /usr/local/bin/ || sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/; to make sure the bin folder exists
3. sudo mv glab-*-darwin-amd64/glab /usr/bin

Building From Source

If a supported binary for your OS is not found at the releases page, you can build from source:

1. Verify that you have Go 1.13.8+ installed

   $ go version
   go version go1.14

   If go is not installed, follow instructions on the Go website.

2. Clone this repository

   $ git clone https://github.com/profclems/glab.git glab-cli
   $ cd glab-cli

   or

   $ git clone https://gitlab.com/profclems/glab.git
   $ cd glab-cli

3. Build the project

   $ make build
   

4. Move the resulting bin/glab executable to somewhere in your PATH

   $ sudo mv ./bin/glab /usr/local/bin/

   or

   $ sudo mv ./bin/glab /usr/bin/

5. Run glab version to check if it worked and glab config -g to set up

Configuration

To set configuration for current directory (must be a git repository)

glab config  // Will be prompted for details

or

glab config --token=<YOUR-GITLAB-ACCESS-TOKEN> --url=https://gitlab.com --remote-var=origin

To set configuration globally

glab config --global // Will be prompted for details

or

glab config --global --token=<YOUR-GITLAB-ACCESS-TOKEN> --url=https://gitlab.com  --remote-var=origin

For initial releases up to v1.6.1

glab config --token=<YOUR-GITLAB-ACCESS-TOKEN> --url=https://gitlab.com --pid=<YOUR-GITLAB-PROJECT-ID> --repo=OWNER/REPO

Example

glab config --token=sometoken --url=https://gitlab.com --pid=someprojectid --repo=profclems/glab

NB: Change gitlab.com to company or group's gitlab url if self-hosted

Environment Variables

GITLAB_TOKEN: an authentication token for API requests. Setting this avoids being
prompted to authenticate and overrides any previously stored credentials.
Can be set with `glab config --token=<YOUR-GITLAB-ACCESS-TOKEN>`

GITLAB_REPO: specify the Gitlab repository in "OWNER/REPO" format for commands that
otherwise operate on a local repository. (Depreciated in v1.6.2) 
Can be set with `glab config --repo=OWNER/REPO`

GITLAB_URI: specify the url of the gitlab server if self hosted (eg: https://gitlab.example.com). 
Default is https://gitlab.com.
Can be set with `glab config --url=https://gitlab.example.com`

VISUAL, EDITOR (in order of precedence): the editor tool to use for authoring text.

BROWSER: the web browser to use for opening links.

GLAMOUR_STYLE: environment variable to set your desired markdown renderer style
Available options are (dark|light|notty) or set a custom style
https://github.com/charmbracelet/glamour#styles

ToDo

Aside adding more features, the biggest thing this tool still needs is tests 😞

Issues

If you have an issue: report it on the issue tracker

Contributions

Thanks for considering contributing to this project!

Please read the contributions guide and Code of conduct.

Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request!

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Bradley Garrod 💻 📦 📖	Matheus Lugon 🎨	Opoku-Dapaah 📖 🎨	Prasanna Kumar Gollangi 💻 🚧	Sune Keller 💵 💻	sattellite 💻 🐛	Abdelhak Akermi 💻
Patrick McMichael 📖	Christian Wolff 📖	Amith Mihiranga 📖	Clement Sam 💻 🚧 📦	John McAvoy 💻	wiwi 💻	Benjamin Graf 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

License

Copyright © Clement Sam

glab is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Author

Built with ❤ by Clement Sam