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suprjami
I once tried to PR from hub.

It sent the PR from my branch on my fork to master on my fork. Obviously I wished to PR against the original thing I forked from.

I just stick to the web interface now.

ultrafez
You could submit a pull request to hub to fix it!

Perhaps not using hub to do so, though.

emacsfodder
What you needed was to use the options -h (head, ie. the feature branch) and -b (base, ie the upstream master) eg.

    git pull-request \
      -m "I added an awesome feature"\
      -b baserepo:master\
      -h myfork:feature-branch
justinsb
The GitHub web interface defaults to the PR-to-upstream behavior though, so this is at least an inconsistency; I would argue it is a bug.
michaelmior
I believe will always default to sending the PR to the remote named origin. If you have the original repo listed as origin and your repo as a remote with your username, you get the expected behaviour. I think the issue here is that hub has no explicit knowledge of the ancestry of the repo so unless it fetches this from the GH API, I think it's doing the only logical thing.
mgold
It sure would be nice to have `--dry-run --verbose` to see exactly what it's going to do.
zimbatm
Thanks to hub the friction to contributing is much lower for me. That's how I contribute back to projects on github:

    hub clone user/repo
    cd repo
    git checkout -b my-contrib
    # ... fix fix fix ...
    hub fork
    git push -u zimbatm my-contrib
    hub browse # Opens browser on my fork
    # Create PR with comment in browser
jballanc
Just a note, you can simplify your workflow even further by using `hub pull-request` . If your PR consists of a single commit, it'll even pre-populate the PR description for you (if not, it helpfully lists the commits included in the PR in the comments of the PR/commit message).
bderusha
If you want to review the PR before submitting it you can also do `hub compare my-contrib` and it will open up the comparison in your browser. One more click to turn it into a PR.
Dewie3
> hub is best aliased as git, so you can type `$ git <command>` in the shell and get all the usual hub features.

World domination feels imminent.

pvdebbe
Yes, sure smells like a case of embrace & extend.
chrismorgan
I know I don’t like doing it that way. I use `git` (actually, I have `alias g=git`, so I actually write `g`) directly for most things, only pulling out `hub` for GitHub-specific things.
brento
I can see Linus Torvalds doing a table flip over this part. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
jrolfs
In my experience it slows the `git` command down quite a bit and therefore my prompt. It's not too difficult to type hub instead :/
bovermyer
I've been using Hub forever. It's a lovely bit of improvement over raw git, at least for Github-based projects.
callahad
I'm quite fond of of Ingy's git-hub command, https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-hub, which also gives you most of Hub's features, along with much, much more. E.g., the the ability to manage things like a repo's collaborators, issues, etc. from the command line. And it's a normal git extension command, so you run it as `git hub clone foo/bar` or `git hub issue-new` or `git hub pr-list` which feels like a better point of integration.

Edit: And per some concerns elsewhere in the comments, there's also a --dryrun parameter to ensure that it's going to do what you want it to do. ;)

bsiemon
hub pull-request is my favorite feature. It cuts the actions down from many mouse clicks to one command in terminal.
[dead] dotandimet
I ran across this repo yesterday while searching for an explanation of github releases (not a very searchable term...).

The release notes for version 2.2.0 mention their [cucumber specs](https://github.com/github/hub/tree/master/features), which look like a good example of using BDD in a full project.

And then I wandered off and got distracted by a UTF-8 problem in the Hebrew localization of Test::BDD::Cucumber.

kolev
Node GH [0] seems to do a few things better including the plugin architecture allowing integration with JIRA and others.

[0] http://nodegh.io/