til/github/target-another-repo-when-creating-a-pr.md

Target Another Repo When Creating A PR

I have a dotfiles repo that I forked from dkarter/dotfiles. I'm adding a bunch of my own customizations on a main branch while continually pulling in and merging upstream changes.

The primary remote according to gh is jbranchaud/dotfiles. 98% of the time that is what I want. However, I occasionally want to share some changes upstream via a PR. Running gh pr create as is will create a PR against my fork. To override this on a one-off basis, I can use the --repo flag.

$ gh pr create --repo dkarter/dotfiles

This will create a PR against dkarter:master from my branch (e.g. jbranchaud:jb/fix-hardcoded-paths).

See man gh-pr-create for more details.