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by pbalau 2101 days ago
Convenience.

> Like, what does this do apart from a regular git clone? Why is this necessary?

You can't see a difference between ```gh repo clone owner/repo``` and ```git clone git@github.com:owner/repo.git```?

Also:

> Something like "git clone ssh://github.com/foo/bar" followed by "gh init foo/bar"

What's there to "init"?

> Same goes here. Why overlaying git commands? I would have expected to just push my branch, and then call something like "gh pr create <my branch> <target branch>"

From the docs: "When the current branch isn’t fully pushed to a git remote, a prompt will ask where to push the branch [...]"

> Same remark again and again, what does that do apart from checking out a branch? Why the overlay?

It resolves the pr # to the corresponding branch name, probably git fetch and checkout. Why should I have to know the irrelevant piece of information that is how you named your branch?

> So what's wrong with "git diff <target>..<source>"

How do you find out the target and source hashes? Another piece of convenience.

> Come on.. "git co <target> ; git merge <source>" needs to be overplayed?

And this is wrong. This merges source in target locally, ```gh pr merge``` merges it remotely. You can be Linus Torvalds, you are not going to push to my master branch.