create-gh-pr.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function
from github import Github
from os.path import expanduser
from argparse import ArgumentParser

parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-r", "--repository", dest="repo", help="Github Repositoy name e.g cms-sw/cms-bot",type=str)
parser.add_argument("-b", "--base_branch", dest="base_branch",help="Repository branch againt which new Pull request should be created",type=str)
parser.add_argument("-f", "--feature_branch", dest="feature_branch",help="New feature branch to be merged",type=str)
parser.add_argument("-t", "--title", dest="title", help="Pull request title",type=str)
parser.add_argument("-d", "--body", dest="body", help="Pull request body text, optional",type=str, default='')
parser.add_argument("-c", "--comment", dest="comment", help="Extra comment after creating Pull requests e.g. please tests",type=str, default='')

args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.repo: parser.error("Missing Repo")
if not args.base_branch: parser.error("Missing base branch name.")
if not args.feature_branch: parser.error("Missing feature branch name.")
if not args.title: parser.error("Missing PR title")
print("Authenticating to Github and connecting to repo")
gh = Github(login_or_token = open(expanduser("~/.github-token")).read().strip())
print("Authentication succeeeded")
gh_repo = gh.get_repo(args.repo)
print("Creating pull request")
pr = gh_repo.create_pull(title = args.title, body = args.body.replace('@N@','\n'), base = args.base_branch, head = args.feature_branch)
if args.comment:
  pr.create_issue_comment(body=args.comment)