Open current directory or given file in repo on github

[bengoism]

I quite often want to showcase/share code on github with other developers. However in my workflow its much more convenient for me to locate a file or directory I want to share in my local development environment. therefore it would be great if I could open the current directory or a given file on github through the CLI

There will be some edge cases that needs to be covered in this feature since the local branch might not be pushed yet etc

[mislav]

Hi thank you for writing in!

Right now we have a command to open the home page of the current repository in the browser: gh repo view. But if I understand, you need something more specific, right?

To clarify some of your requests:

• When you say "open the current directory", would that mean opening a git tree view corresponding to the current working directory you are in, e.g. internal/ghrepo/ → https://github.com/cli/cli/tree/trunk/internal/ghrepo?
• "Open a given file": I suspect this should open a git blob view for the current branch like so https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/internal/ghrepo/repo.go?
• What should happen if the current branch isn't pushed?

How much of this maps to our existing rough plans for a top-level "view" command? #217

[bengoism]

yes your clarifications align with what I meant :). I think the functionality Im after will be covered if @sindresorhus suggestion will supported #217 (comment)

an additional feature that I think would be useful would be to open the working directory if no arguments are provided to gh view or maybe it should just accept directories as arguments and opening the current one would just be gh view .

if the branch doesn't exist remotely I think an error message would suffice. maybe you could fallback to master if the file exists there but ofc makes the implementation a bit more complex on your end.

[bengoism]

Ill add my comment to #217, so you can close this