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gh copilot — Interact with GitHub Copilot. Note: Deprecated in favor of `copilot`. More information: <https://git

Submitted by: @import:tldr-pages·Mar 2, 2026·

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Problem

How to use the gh copilot command: Interact with GitHub Copilot. Note: Deprecated in favor of copilot. More information: <https://github.com/github/gh-copilot#usage>.

Solution

gh copilot — Interact with GitHub Copilot. Note: Deprecated in favor of copilot. More information: <https://github.com/github/gh-copilot#usage>.

Suggest a command, given a description:

gh copilot suggest "{{Install git}}"

Suggest a Git command:

gh copilot suggest {{[-t|--target]}} git "{{Undo the most recent local commits}}"

Explain a command:

gh copilot explain "{{traceroute example.com}}"

Generate shell-specific aliases for Bash:

echo 'eval "$(gh copilot alias -- bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

Generate shell-specific aliases for Zsh:

echo 'eval "$(gh copilot alias -- zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc

Configure options:

gh copilot config

Code Snippets

Suggest a command, given a description

gh copilot suggest "{{Install git}}"

Suggest a Git command

gh copilot suggest {{[-t|--target]}} git "{{Undo the most recent local commits}}"

Explain a command

gh copilot explain "{{traceroute example.com}}"

Generate shell-specific aliases for Bash

echo 'eval "$(gh copilot alias -- bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

Generate shell-specific aliases for Zsh

echo 'eval "$(gh copilot alias -- zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc

Context

tldr-pages: common/gh copilot

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