| GH-PROJECT-ITEM-EDIT(1) | GitHub CLI manual | GH-PROJECT-ITEM-EDIT(1) |
NAME
gh-project-item-edit - Edit an item in a project
SYNOPSIS
gh project item-edit [<number>] [flags]
DESCRIPTION
Edit a draft issue or a project item.
The usual way to select the item and field is by name: pass the project number plus --owner, point at the item with its issue or pull request --url, and name the field with --field. For single-select fields, --value is the option name.
For scripts and machine use, you can also pass GraphQL node IDs directly with --id, --field-id and --project-id (and, for single-select fields, --single-select-option-id).
Note that --url is the issue or pull request URL, not a project URL, so its owner may differ from the project's; --owner selects the project.
For non-draft issues, only a single field value can be updated per invocation.
Remove a project item field value with --clear.
OPTIONS
- --body <string>
- Body of the draft issue item
- --clear
- Remove field value
- --date <string>
- Date value for the field (YYYY-MM-DD)
- --field <string>
- Name of the field to update
- --field-id <string>
- ID of the field to update
- --format <string>
- Output format: {json}
- --id <string>
- ID of the item to edit
- --iteration-id <string>
- ID of the iteration value to set on the field
- -q, --jq <expression>
- Filter JSON output using a jq expression
- --number <float> (default 0)
- Number value for the field
- --owner <string>
- Login of the owner. Use "@me" for the current user.
- --project-id <string>
- ID of the project to which the field belongs to
- --single-select-option-id <string>
- ID of the single select option value to set on the field
- -t, --template <string>
- Format JSON output using a Go template; see "gh help formatting"
- --text <string>
- Text value for the field
- --title <string>
- Title of the draft issue item
- --url <string>
- URL of the issue or pull request whose project item to edit
- --value <--field>
- Value to set on the field named by --field
EXIT CODES
0: Successful execution
1: Error
2: Command canceled
4: Authentication required
NOTE: Specific commands may have additional exit codes. Refer to the command's help for more information.
EXAMPLE
# Set the "Status" field to "In Progress" for an issue on monalisa's project 1 $ gh project item-edit 1 --owner monalisa --url https://github.com/monalisa/myproject/issues/23 --field "Status" --value "In Progress" # Edit an item's text field value by node ID (machine / scripted use) $ gh project item-edit --id <item-id> --field-id <field-id> --project-id <project-id> --text "new text" # Clear an item's field value by node ID $ gh project item-edit --id <item-id> --field-id <field-id> --project-id <project-id> --clear
SEE ALSO
| Sep 2026 |