Warn if branch not published

[penx]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

If you try to run glab mr create on a branch that only exists locally, a merge request is created from a non existent branch with no changes.

Propose a Solution

Option to warn or block glab mr create if the branch doesn't exist on the remove.

[zemzale]

Hi @penx

I guess we could show some kind of info text that nothing is pushed to the remote and it's an empty MR, but I don't think this is really needed since it's a completely valid thing to do in GitLab.

And if you want to push your current branch you can use the --push flag.

[penx]

A warning would be great, for me due to me wrongly thinking I'd pushed a branch and then distributing the MR link with my team only to later be told the MR is blank 😄 (I've done this about 4 times over the past couple weeks! I'm used to hub which I think prevents a PR being created)

Yes I could start using --push by default instead...

Thanks for glab 🙂

[zemzale]

You can use an alias for this. I have one called mrc that does all the stuff I need for MR

You can do it like glab alias set mrc "mr create -a=@me --remove-source-branch --push

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