glab(1)

✨ glab(1) — orbit update, but make it a glow-up ✨

okay so real talk: this is a page from the glab manual (that's the GitLab CLI, yes bestie, the one you already love 💅), and today's main character is glab-orbit-update. Buckle up, it's short but it's iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

glab-orbit-update — updates the GitLab Orbit CLI binary to the latest version. (EXPERIMENTAL) 🧪

Like, yes, that's the whole vibe: it's the "get me the newest Orbit CLI" command. But the EXPERIMENTAL tag is not a joke — more on that in a sec, and I need you to actually read it, fr fr.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

glab orbit update [flags]

that's it. that's the whole incantation. flags are optional, slaying is mandatory ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's what it does, no cap: it checks whether there's a newer GitLab Orbit CLI version out there, and if there is, it installs it for you. 🫶

And if you don't even have the binary installed yet? Not a problem, bestie — glab just downloads the latest version for you. Fresh install, who dis 🎀

⚠️ big important caveat, don't skip this one: updates do not apply when you're using a custom binary that you set with GLAB_ORBIT_CLI_BINARY_PATH or with the orbit_cli_binary_path configuration key. Like, the command literally won't touch your custom setup. iykyk 🙈

Also lowkey convenient: glab orbit --update does the exact same thing. Same energy, different spelling 💫

🧪 experiment alert (read it, i'm begging): this feature is an experiment and is not ready for production use. It might be unstable, or it might get removed at literally any time. For more information, see https://docs.gitlab.com/policy/development_stages_support/ — that link is your bestie for the deets.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -y, --yes[=false] — skips the download prompt when the binary isn't installed yet. no "are you sure?" moment, just vibes and a download ⭐

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🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

• -h, --help[=false] — shows help for this command. the classic, the beloved, the "wait what does this do again" button 💜

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🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

# Update the GitLab Orbit CLI, or download it if not installed
glab orbit update

# Skip the download prompt
glab orbit update --yes

first one: update if it's there, download if it's not, no notes. second one: same thing but with --yes so it doesn't stop to ask you anything 🚀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• glab-orbit(1) — the parent command, go say hi 🫶

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 no crumbs left, every flag accounted for, periodt.

this little love letter was auto generated by spf13/cobra back in Nov 2026, and it lives in the glab(1) manual — mwah, see you in the next one 💋