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# Open File To Specific Line In Browser
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Often one of the best ways to point a teammate to a line of code is to share a
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GitHub link to a specific file and line number. Sometimes even a specific
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commit.
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For the longest time I would manually open GitHub, navigate to that file, and so
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forth. The `gh` CLI supports this with the `browse` subcommand and it takes way
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less time if you already have the repo in your local filesystem.
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For instance, if I want to point you to line 11 of the `zshrc.local` file in my
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`dotfiles` repo, I can run the following command:
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```bash
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$ gh browse zshrc.local:11
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```
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That would open a browser tab to
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[https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/main/zshrc.local?plain=1#L11](https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/main/zshrc.local?plain=1#L11).
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If I wanted a range of lines, I could change it from `11` to, say, `11-27`:
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```bash
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$ gh browse zshrc.local:11-27
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```
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And I would see this in the browser --
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[https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/main/zshrc.local?plain=1#L11-L27](https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/main/zshrc.local?plain=1#L11-L27).
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Both of these URLs are pointing to the `main` branch. If I instead want to
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reference a specific commit, I can use the `--commit` flag.
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```bash
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$ gh browse zshrc.local:11-27 --commit=f2f9e78d4fc784643f725c88f7a5a7a077e7f261
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```
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I grabbed that from the latest commit in `git log`. That opens to
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[https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/f2f9e78d4fc784643f725c88f7a5a7a077e7f261/zshrc.local?plain=1#L11-L27](https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/f2f9e78d4fc784643f725c88f7a5a7a077e7f261/zshrc.local?plain=1#L11-L27).
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Another way of doing that would be to use `git rev-parse HEAD`:
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```bash
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$ gh browse zshrc.local:11-27 --commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
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```
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See `gh browse --help` for more details.
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