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| GCLI-LABELS(1) | General Commands Manual | GCLI-LABELS(1) |
NAME¶
gcli labels —
Manage ticket labels in git forges
SYNOPSIS¶
gcli labels |
[-o owner
-r repo] |
gcli labels |
create [-o
owner -r
repo] -d
description -n
name -c
colour |
gcli labels |
[-o owner
-r repo]
-i name
actions... |
DESCRIPTION¶
Use gcli labels to list, create,
edit or delete labels for Pull Requests/Merge Requests and issues in
repositories in various git forges such as GitHub, GitLab and Gitea. Without
any action specified, gcli labels will list
all defined labels in the given or auto-detected repository.
OPTIONS¶
SUBCOMMANDS¶
create- Create a new label in the given or auto-detected repository.
The following flags must be specified:
-n,--namename- Set the short name of the label to the given name.
-d,--descriptiondescription- Set the description of the label to the given text. Note that on GitHub this field may only consist of up to 150 characters.
-c,--colourcode- Set the colour of the label to the given code. code is expected to be a 6 digit hexadecimal RGB colour code.
ACTIONS¶
When given a specific label with -i you
can execute one or more of the following actions:
status- Print a short summary about the label.
namenew-name- Change the name of the to the given new-name.
descriptionnew-description- Change the description of the label to new-description. You should wrap the description in quotes in case it contains spaces.
colourhexcolour- Change the colour of the label to the six-digit hexadecmial RGB colour code hexcolour.
delete- Delete the given label.
EXAMPLES¶
Print a list of all labels in the current project:
$ gcli labels
Create a new label called ‘bug’ with a description ‘Something is not working as expected’ and give it a red colour:
$ gcli labels create \ --name bug \ --description "Something is not working as expected" \ --colour FF0000
Delete the label ‘foobar’ in herrhotzenplotz/gcli and use the configured account ‘gitlab’:
$ gcli -a gitlab labels -o herrhotzenplotz -r gcli -i foobar delete
SEE ALSO¶
AUTHORS¶
Nico Sonack aka. herrhotzenplotz <nsonack@herrhotzenplotz.de> and contributors.
BUGS¶
The delete subcommand should ask for confirmation and have a flag to override this behaviour.
Please report bugs via E-Mail to https://lists.sr.ht/~herrhotzenplotz/gcli-discuss.
Alternatively you can report them on any of the forges linked at https://sr.ht/~herrhotzenplotz/gcli. However, the preferred and quickest method is to use the mailing list.
| 04-Oct-2025 | gcli 2.9.1 |