diff --git a/plugins/github/github.plugin.zsh b/plugins/github/github.plugin.zsh
index c23504b8..72e9b07b 100644
--- a/plugins/github/github.plugin.zsh
+++ b/plugins/github/github.plugin.zsh
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# hub alias from defunkt
+# https://github.com/defunkt/hub
+if which hub > /dev/null; then
+    eval $(hub alias -s zsh)
+fi
+
 # add github completion function to path
 fpath=($ZSH/plugins/github $fpath)
 autoload -U compinit