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Create pull request for GitHub project

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

git-pull-request [<target branch>]

Description

Create pull request for a project on GitHub via command line.

A personal access token is required for making the API call to open the pull request(s) in GitHub. API Documentation here https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/pulls#create-a-pull-request

Make sure the personal access token has the right OAuth scopes for the repo(s)

Use git config --global --add git-extras.github-personal-access-token <your-personal-access-token>

If using multiple accounts, override the global value in the specific repo using git config git-extras.github-personal-access-token <other-acc-personal-access-token>

Options

<target branch>

The target branch you want to send pull request to.

Examples

$ git pull-request master
Everything up-to-date

  create pull-request for spacewander/spacewander-toolbox ´master´

  title: test
  body:
  base [master]:
  GitHub two-factor authentication code (leave blank if not set up):

Author

Written by Tj Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca>

Reporting Bugs

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues>

See Also

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras>

Referenced By

git-extras(1).

August 2020 Git Extras