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It detects HEAD if it's pushed and tracking.

$ git co -b topic-branch
$ ghi -v e 1 -H
fatal: HEAD can't be null
$ git push -u origin topic-branch
[...]
 * [new branch]      topic-branch -> topic-branch
Branch topic-branch set up to track remote branch topic-branch from origin.
$ ghi -v e 1 -H
===> POST /repos/user/repo/pulls {"head":"topic-branch","issue":"1","base":"master"}
[...]
$ ghi -v e 1 -Huser:
===> POST /repos/user/repo/pulls {"head":"user:topic-branch","issue":"1","base":"master"}

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Thoughts on improving the situation:

1. Making the fatal error message more helpful? Something like "fatal: HEAD can't be null (Is your current branch being tracked upstream?)", perhaps.
2. Defaulting head user to the authorized user.

What do you think?

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I think the first one would be better, having a more verbose error message; why not make -H -h ?

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Because -h is typically help (in ghi and git). hub's command is an outlier.

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a way around that would be to have a help command, but I digress;

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Did you try it? It works just fine with -h if you provide an issue number.

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