Create a GitHub PR From Your Shell
I frequently create new GitHub PRs and when contributing to projects I
don’t often use, especially open source projects, I like to create them
using the web to make sure I fill out the PR template properly. Sadly,
gh pr create -w
just doesn’t have the
right defaults, so I turned a
different way…
Basically this script is the combination of many other small Bytes I’ve created which all contribute to making this pretty simple:
With these three commands in place, we can create the following script
which I named prc
(PR Create).
#!/bin/bash
default_branch=$(git default)
branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
if [[ $branch == "$default_branch" ]]; then
echo "error: Cannot create a PR from the default branch"
exit 1
fi
git push
open "$(remote-url)/compare/$default_branch...$(echo "$branch" | url-encode)?body=&expand=1"