Bash script to make a pull request from the current git repository.

pull_request.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash


pull_request() {
	local to_branch="$1"
	if [ -z $to_branch ]; then
		to_branch="master"
	fi

  local access_token="[some access token with lots of characters]"
	local root_endpoint="https://api.github.com"
	local origin="$(git config --get remote.origin.url)"
	local user="$(echo "$origin" | sed -e 's/.*[\/:]\([^/]*\)\/[^/]*$/\1/')"
	local repo="$(basename `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`)"
	local from_branch="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"

	curl -i \
		-H 'Authorization: token '"$access_token" \
		-H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
		-d '{
				"title": "Amazing new feature",
				"body": "Please pull this in!",
				"head": "'"$from_branch"'",
				"base": "'"$to_branch"'"
		    }' \
		-L https://"$root_endpoint"/repos/"$user"/"$repo"/pulls

}

pull_request "$@"