git open-pull

Create a pull request from the command line, or attach a branch to an open GitHub issue converting it into a pull request.

USAGE

$ git open-pull

git-open-pull takes the following optional arguments:
--interactive - boolean flag to turn off interactive mode; this is default set to true
--description-file - path to a file that contains your PR description
--title - string title for your PR
--labels - comma separated list of labels to be added to you PR
--version - print version of git-open-pull and Go

$ git open-pull --interactive=false --description-file="description.txt" --labels="label1, label2" --title="My PR Title"

Installing

Install from source, or visit the releases page

go install github.com/jehiah/git-open-pull@latest

CONFIGURATION

If available, git-open-pull will use the following config values. When not available They will be requested on the command line. Note: storing your GitHub API credentials this way is not secure. Your API credentials will be stored in plain text.

[github]
    user = ....
[gitOpenPull]
    token = ..... # GitHub Access Token generated from https://github.com/settings/tokens
    baseAccount = ....
    baseRepo = .....
    base = master
    # Allow maintainers of the upstream repo to modify this branch
    # https://help.github.com/articles/allowing-changes-to-a-pull-request-branch-created-from-a-fork/
    maintainersCanModify = true | false (default: true)
[core]
    editor = /usr/bin/vi

Hooks. git-open-pull provides the ability to modify an issue template (preProcess or postProcess) or to be notified after a PR is created (callback). pre/post process commands are executed with the first argument continaing a filename with the issue template. Callback is executed with the first argument containing the filename of a file with the json results from the GitHub api of PR details

[gitOpenPull]
    preProcess = /path/to/exe
    postProcess = /path/to/exe
    callback = /path/to/exe

git-open-pull will also look for the following environment variables, which will take precendence over values found in the config file.

GITOPENPULL_TOKEN
GITOPENPULL_USER
GITOPENPULL_BASE_ACCOUNT
GITOPENPULL_BASE_REPO
GITOPENPULL_PRE_PROCESS
GITOPENPULL_POST_PROCESS
GITOPENPULL_CALLBACK
GITOPENPULL_BASE_BRANCH
GITOPENPULL_MAINTAINERS_CAN_MODIFY
GITOPENPULL_EDITOR

ABOUT

Because the ideal workflow is issue -> branch -> pull request this script takes a GitHub issue and turns it into a pull request based on your branch against master in the integration account

Building From Source

This project uses Go Modules to manage dependencies.

go build