GitHub CLI allows you to close, reopen, and add metadata to issues and pull requests

GitHub CLI 0.8 makes working with pull requests and issues from your terminal even simpler. This release includes two primary features:

  • You no longer need to open your issue or pull request in the browser immediately after creating it just to add metadata. Now you can add reviewers, labels, assignees, projects, and milestones (as applicable) when creating pull requests and issues.
  • Close and reopen pull requests and issues right from the CLI with gh pr close, gh pr reopen, gh issue close, and gh issue reopen.

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Account successors

You can invite a trusted user to manage your user-owned repositories in the event you are unable to. For more information on appointing an account successor, see the maintaining ownership continuity of your user account's repositories documentation.

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