At my current customer we use Github a lot. Everything requires a review via a Pull Request. It is sometimes tedious to switch from your IDE or terminal to the browser while creating a PR. Github has a command line utility called gh which you can use to automatically create a PR from the command line. It has lots of extra stuff as well, such as downloading releases, viewing issues, creating gists, cloning repo’s and code completion.

Start by following the installation steps in https://github.com/cli/cli to install the gh binary. There are packages for all operating systems.

Once installed you need to login to your github account once.

$> gh auth login

Code completion is available for the shells bash, zsh, fish and powershell. I use bash and enable it by putting the following line in my .bashrc

eval "$(gh completion -s bash)"

The feature I save most time with is gh pr create when I need to fix a small issue and create a PR.

$> gh pr create --help

Create a pull request on GitHub.

When the current branch isn't fully pushed to a git remote, a prompt will ask where to push the branch and offer an option to fork the base repository.
Use '--head' to explicitly skip any forking or pushing behavior.

A prompt will also ask for the title and the body of the pull request. Use '--title' and '--body' to skip this, or use '--fill' to autofill these values from git commits.

USAGE
  gh pr create [flags]

FLAGS
  -a, --assignee login   Assign people by their login
  -B, --base branch      The branch into which you want your code merged
  -b, --body string      Body for the pull request
  -d, --draft            Mark pull request as a draft
  -f, --fill             Do not prompt for title/body and just use commit info
  -H, --head branch      The branch that contains commits for your pull request (default: current branch)
  -l, --label name       Add labels by name
  -m, --milestone name   Add the pull request to a milestone by name
  -p, --project name     Add the pull request to projects by name
  -r, --reviewer login   Request reviews from people by their login
  -t, --title string     Title for the pull request
  -w, --web              Open the web browser to create a pull request

INHERITED FLAGS
      --help              Show help for command
  -R, --repo OWNER/REPO   Select another repository using the OWNER/REPO format

EXAMPLES
  $ gh pr create --title "The bug is fixed" --body "Everything works again"
  $ gh pr create --reviewer monalisa,hubot
  $ gh pr create --project "Roadmap"
  $ gh pr create --base develop --head monalisa:feature

At this point, I created a local branch BUG-332-fix-typo in which I fixed the bug. I can then easily create the PR in Github.

$> git status
On branch BUG-332-fix-typo
nothing to commit, working tree clean

$> gh pr create -f
? Where should we push the 'BUG-332-fix-typo' branch?  [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
> toefel18/my-repository
  Create a fork of toefel18/my-repository
  Skip pushing the branch
  Cancel

Enumerating objects: 5, done.
Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 282 bytes | 282.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), completed with 2 local objects.
remote:
remote: Create a pull request for 'BUG-332-fix-typo' on GitHub by visiting:
remote:      https://github.com/toefel18/my-repository/pull/new/BUG-332-fix-typo
remote:
To github.com:toefel18/my-repository.git
 * [new branch]      HEAD -> BUG-332-fix-typo
Branch 'BUG-332-fix-typo' set up to track remote branch 'BUG-332-fix-typo' from 'origin'.
https://github.com/toefel18/my-repository/pull/238

It saves me some time and I use it daily. Hopefully it helps you as well.

More Info
https://github.com/cli/cli
https://cli.github.com/manual/

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