pullme

pullme is a command-line script for making pull requests. It's smart about choosing a base branch for the pull request--it examines git-log to make a good guess as to what the base branch should be.

Installation

Installation is simple:

curl https://raw.github.com/AndrewLorente/Pullme/master/scripts/pullme > ~/bin/pullme && chmod u+x ~/bin/pullme

If you'd like an easier way to stay up-to-date, or you'd like to develop pullme (possibly USING pullme!?) do the following:

fork on github
clone your fork
python setup.py develop

What it does

• Check if there are outstanding changes
• push the current branch to your fork
• create pull request from your fork to the canonical fork.
• open $EDITOR to get the pull request title and body (taking the first line as the title, like git commit)
• submit a pull request through the github api

Remotes

It behooves us to talk about remotes for a moment. Here's how pullme assumes your remotes are set up:

origin -> github.com/CANONICAL_FORK.git
$USER -> github.com/YOUR_FORK.git

If you're using a different setup, that's fine, we can work with that. You'll need to specify how your remotes are set up, either using git config or command-line flags.

pullme configuration

The settings you can configure for pullme are upstream, personal, assume, file, issue, and open.

You can use the upstream and personal settings if you don't have your remotes structured the way pullme assumes. These should be set to the remote name as configured using git remote.

The assume setting means pullme will trust its own heuristics, rather than prompting to confirm them. It will also trust you, and won't check to see if there are any outstanding changes. Assume is a very trusting setting.

The file setting reads the pull request title and body from the given file. If there's a problem with the file, it'll be opened in $EDITOR.

The issue setting skips the title and body entirely; instead, your pull request will use the given github issue number.

the open setting will open the newly-created pull request in your browser after creating it. Currently this only works on OSX.

pullme and .gitconfig

pullme can also look up any of the above settings in your git config. To configure pullme, run:

git config [--global] pullme.SETTING VALUE

For example, if you typically use 'upstream' to refer to the canonical version and 'origin' for your own fork, you'd do this:

git config --global pullme.upstream upstream
git config --global pullme.personal origin

You can also use the non-global git config, if one of your repositories doesn't conform to your usual conventions:

git config pullme.upstream canonical

Every single one of pullme's command-line flags can also be put in your git config, even the ones that seem to make very little sense:

git config --global pullme.issue 17

As with all things in life, the final judgment of what is wisdom and what is foolishness is left to you.