I am using hub to send a pull request from the command line like so:
hub pull-request -b upstream:master -h me:feature
When I do this, hub automatically opens up my terminal text editor and displays the pull request message so that I can edit it. However, 9.99 times out of 10 I am completely content with the message that hub chooses as the default, so I would rather just have hub use the default message without opening up a text editor. Is there any way to do this?
I know I could use hub pull-request -m "message" ..., to avoid using an editor, but that would actually be more work because I would need to retype the message. None of the other options on the hub man page seem to do this either.
If you check how commands/pull_request.go#pullRequest() is implemented, it doesn't seem possible to avoid the editor.
This shouldn't be very difficult to propose a patch adding a new option to this command, which would avoid the lines:
message, err := pullRequestChangesMessage(baseTracking, headTracking, fullBase, fullHead)
utils.Check(err)
editor, err = github.NewEditor("PULLREQ", "pull request", message)
utils.Check(err)
title, body, err = editor.EditTitleAndBody()
utils.Check(err)
The goal would be to directly infer title and body from the message.
This is not possible (and it will likely not be possible in the future for reasons outlined in hub issue #722), but I created a workaround in case anyone else wants this feature in hub:
Create an empty shell script called something like no-edit.sh:
echo '#!/bin/bash' > no-edit.sh
chmod +x no-edit.sh
Note: You can edit this script to output the message with cat "$1" if you want.
Note 2: Alternatively you could just use /usr/bin/true as recommended by mislav on hub github issue #722.
Create the following shell script and call it whatever you want (I went with hub-no-edit.sh):
#!/bin/bash
OLD_GIT_EDITOR=$GIT_EDITOR
export GIT_EDITOR=/path/to/no-edit.sh
hub $@
export GIT_EDITOR=$OLD_GIT_EDITOR
Now just put the second script on your path and you can execute a pull-request without editing the message:
hub-no-edit.sh pull-request -b base:master -h me:feature