Purpose These instructions describe the process for setting up GH commands on gadi. These commands make it easier to interface with GitHub but an initial setup is required. Prerequisites A GitHub account A login to gadi You need to have an NCI account and to join project vk83. gh commands You can…

Hi @helen , Thank you for this useful guide! I don’t think gh is available as a default on Gadi. I know an instance is available in the vk83/payu environment, but I am not sure that is the best one to use (for example if I don’t want any of the other dependencies in the payu environment but I’m on…

Thanks @atteggiani . I am recommending using the payu environment (and have added this) as this is the only one I know that is readily available.

Thank you @helen . I find loading the entire payu environment only to be using gh a bit unnecessary (gh is often needed by people that might even never use payu). Could it be helpful to create a gh module (in vk83), containing only the gh executable, so people only needing gh could do something lik…

Just updating here to say that @Aidan and @TommyGatti have set up some general software deployments via spack which includes a gh module. This means gh can now be accessed without loading the payu conda environments, by running: module use /g/data/vk83/modules module load system-tools/gh

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helen (Helen Macdonald) 8 July 2025 23:56 6

Thanks! I have updated above and here to reflect this.

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