Opening Pull Requests from terminal

# This will return a string with your current branch name.
parse_git_branch() {
  git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ \1/'
}
 
# This will return a string with a friendly branch name
# If you have a ticketing system, the naming convention might be
# XXX-123-feature-name, so the output would be XXX-123 Feature name
formatted_git_branch() {
  branch="$(parse_git_branch)"
  # Replace all '-' with spaces
  pr_title="${branch//-/ }"
  
  # Check if it starts with XXX, otherwise we just return the capitalized name
  if [[ $pr_title == XXX* ]]; then
    pr_title=${pr_title:0:3}-${pr_title:4}
    
    # XXX-123 test
    if [[ ${pr_title:7:1} == " " ]]; then
      fl="$(echo ${pr_title:8:1} | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')"
      pr_title=${pr_title:0:8}$fl${pr_title:9}
    else
      # XXX-1234 test
      fl="$(echo ${pr_title:9:1} | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')"
      pr_title=${pr_title:0:9}${fl^}${pr_title:10}
    fi
  else
    fl="$(echo ${pr_title:0:1} | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')"
    pr_title=$fl${pr_title:1}
  fi
  
  # Using ${var^} returns me a 'bad substitute' error, thus the echo workaround
  echo "$pr_title"
}
 
# By default it will use the current branch as from and the -b for the base
perform_pull_request() {
  # Default to the development branch as base
  branch="development"
  
  # If we pass an argument, that will be used as the base branch
  if [ -n "$1" ]; then
    branch=$1
  fi
  
  # The `hub` command outputs the Pull Request `URL`
  pr_url=$(hub pull-request -b "$branch" -m "$(formatted_git_branch)")
  
  # Don't try to open the URL if anything went wrong (if the PR already exists, for example)
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    open "$pr_url"
  fi
}
 
alias gitpr=perform_pull_request

cd ~/path/to/project && gitpr