AWS CodeCommit command line reference

To install and configure the AWS CLI

1. On your local machine, download and install the AWS CLI. This is a prerequisite for interacting with CodeCommit from the command line. We recommend that you install AWS CLI version 2. It is the most recent major version of the AWS CLI and supports all of the latest features. It is the only version of the AWS CLI that supports using a root account, federated access, or temporary credentials with git-remote-codecommit.

   For more information, see Getting Set Up with the AWS Command Line Interface.

   Note

   CodeCommit works only with AWS CLI versions 1.7.38 and later. As a best practice, install or upgrade the AWS CLI to the latest version available. To determine which version of the AWS CLI you have installed, run the aws --version command.

   To upgrade an older version of the AWS CLI to the latest version, see Installing the AWS Command Line Interface.

2. Run this command to verify that the CodeCommit commands for the AWS CLI are installed.

   aws codecommit help

   This command returns a list of CodeCommit commands.

3. Configure the AWS CLI with a profile by using the configure command, as follows:.

   aws configure

   When prompted, specify the AWS access key and AWS secret access key of the IAM user to use with CodeCommit. Also, be sure to specify the AWS Region where the repository exists, such as us-east-2. When prompted for the default output format, specify json. For example, if you are configuring a profile for an IAM user:

   AWS Access Key ID [None]: Type your IAM user AWS access key ID here, and then press Enter
   AWS Secret Access Key [None]: Type your IAM user AWS secret access key here, and then press Enter
   Default region name [None]: Type a supported region for CodeCommit here, and then press Enter
   Default output format [None]: Type json here, and then press Enter

   For more information about creating and configuring profiles to use with the AWS CLI, see the following:

   • Named Profiles

   • Using an IAM Role in the AWS CLI

   • Set command

   • Connecting to AWS CodeCommit repositories with rotating credentials

   To connect to a repository or a resource in another AWS Region, you must reconfigure the AWS CLI with the default Region name. Supported default Region names for CodeCommit include:

   • us-east-2

   • us-east-1

   • eu-west-1

   • us-west-2

   • ap-northeast-1

   • ap-southeast-1

   • ap-southeast-2

   • ap-southeast-3

   • me-central-1

   • eu-central-1

   • ap-northeast-2

   • sa-east-1

   • us-west-1

   • eu-west-2

   • ap-south-1

   • ap-south-1

   • ca-central-1

   • us-gov-west-1

   • us-gov-east-1

   • eu-north-1

   • ap-east-1

   • me-south-1

   • cn-north-1

   • cn-northwest-1

   • eu-south-1

   • ap-northeast-3

   • af-south-1

   • il-central-1

   For more information about CodeCommit and AWS Region, see Regions and Git connection endpoints. For more information about IAM, access keys, and secret keys, see How Do I Get Credentials? and Managing Access Keys for IAM Users. For more information about the AWS CLI and profiles, see Named Profiles.