Comment by AaronBBrown

Have you tried `hub`? https://github.com/github/hub

    ~/src/bar (foo =)$ hub pull-request
    https://github.com/foo/bar/pull/5

There is also `hub fork` and others:

    These GitHub commands are provided by hub:

       pull-request   Open a pull request on GitHub
       fork           Make a fork of a remote repository on GitHub and add as remote
       create         Create this repository on GitHub and add GitHub as origin
       browse         Open a GitHub page in the default browser
       compare        Open a compare page on GitHub
       release        List or create releases (beta)
       issue          List or create issues (beta)
       ci-status      Show the CI status of a commit