Can you issue pull requests from the command line on GitHub

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It seems like you have to interact with github com to initiate a pull request  Is this so

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With the Hub command-line wrapper you can link it to git and then you can do git pull-request

From the man page of hub:

   git pull-request [-f] [TITLE|-i ISSUE|ISSUE-URL] [-b BASE] [-h HEAD]
          Opens a pull request on GitHub for the project that the "origin" remote points to. The default head of the pull request is the current branch. Both base and head of the pull request can be explicitly given in one  of  the  following  formats:  "branch",  "owner:branch",
          "owner/repo:branch". This command will abort operation if it detects that the current topic branch has local commits that are not yet pushed to its upstream branch on the remote. To skip this check, use -f.

          If TITLE is omitted, a text editor will open in which title and body of the pull request can be entered in the same manner as git commit message.

          If instead of normal TITLE an issue number is given with -i, the pull request will be attached to an existing GitHub issue. Alternatively, instead of title you can paste a full URL to an issue on GitHub.

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I ve used this tool before- although it seems like there needs to be an issue open first  it is super useful and really streamlines workflow if you use github issue tracking  git open-pull and then a pull request is submitted from whatever branch you are on or select   https   github com jehiah git-open-pull  EDIT  Looks like you can create issues on the fly  so this tool is a good solution

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A man search like     man git   grep pull   grep request   gives  git request-pull  lt start gt   lt url gt    lt end gt     But  despite the name  it s not what you want  According to the docs      Generate a request asking your upstream project to pull changes into   their tree  The request  printed to the standard output  begins with the    branch description  summarizes the changes and indicates from where they   can be pulled     HolgerJust mentioned the github gem that does what you want   sudo gem install gh  gh pull-request  user   branch    Others have mentioned the official hub package by github   sudo apt-get install hub   or  brew install hub    then  hub pull-request  -focp   -b  lt BASE gt    -h  lt HEAD gt

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I ve created a tool recently that does exactly what you want   https   github com jd git-pull-request  It automates everything in a single command  forking the repo  pushing the PR etc  It also supports updating the PR if you need to edit fix it

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In addition of github hub  which acts as a proxy to Git  you now  February 2020  have cli cli   See  Supercharge your command line experience  GitHub CLI is now in beta      Create a pull request      Create a branch  make several commits to fix the bug described in the issue  and use gh to create a pull request to share your contribution         By using GitHub CLI to create pull requests  it also automatically creates a fork when you don   t already have one  and it pushes your branch and creates your pull request to get your change merged      And in April 2020   GitHub CLI now supports autofilling pull requests and custom configuration      GitHub CLI 0 7 is out with several of the most highly requested enhancements from the feedback our beta users have provided    Since the last minor release  0 6  there are three main features          Configure gh to use your preferred editor with gh config set editor  editor     Configure gh to default to SSH with gh config set git protocol ssh    The default Git protocol is HTTPS    Autofill the title and body of a pull request from your commits with gh pr create --fill       So   gh pr create --fill

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I ended up making my own  I find that it works better the other solutions that were around   https   npmjs org package pullr

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I personally like to view the diff in GitHub prior to opening the PR  Additionally  I prefer writing the PR description on GitHub  For those reasons  I made an alias  or technically a function without arguments   that opens the diff in GitHub between your current branch and master  If you add this to your  zshrc or  bashrc  you will be able to simply type open-pr and see your changes in GitHub  FYI  you will need to have your changes pushed  function open-pr         Get the root of the github project  based on where you are configured to push to   Ex  https   github com tensorflow tensorflow   base uri   git remote -v   grep push   tr   t        cut -d     -f 2   rev   cut -d     -f 2-   rev       Get your current branch name   branch   git branch --show-current       Create PR url and open in the default web browser   url  quot   base uri  compare   branch   expand 1 quot    open  url

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I m using simple alias to create pull request   alias pr  open -n -a  Google Chrome  --args  https   github com user repo compare pre-master   nawarkhede   git current branch   expand  1

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Git now ships with a subcommand  git request-pull   -p   lt start gt   lt url gt    lt end gt    You can see the docs here  You may find this useful but it is not exactly the same as GitHub s feature

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UPDATE  The hub command is now an official github project and also supports creating pull requests  ORIGINAL   Seems like a particularly useful thing to add to the hub command  http   github com defunkt hub or the github gem  http   github com defunkt github-gem  I suggest filing an issue with those projects asking for it  The github guys are pretty responsive

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