Error creating pull request from issue

[jpschewe]

Command attempted:
hub pull-request -i 1072

What happened:
Error creating pull request: Unprocessable Entity (HTTP 422)
Invalid value for "base"

More info:

git version 2.34.1
hub version 2.14.2

VERBOSE data

$ git rev-parse -q --git-dir
$ git symbolic-ref HEAD
$ git remote -v
$ git config --get-all hub.host
> GET https://api.github.com/user
> Authorization: token [REDACTED]
> Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json;charset=utf-8
< HTTP 200
< X-Oauth-Scopes: repo, write:discussion
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$ git symbolic-ref HEAD
$ git config push.default
$ git rev-parse -q --git-path refs/remotes/origin/issue/1072/team-finalist-schedule
$ git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
> GET https://api.github.com/repos/jpschewe/fll-sw
> Authorization: token [REDACTED]
> Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json;charset=utf-8
< HTTP 200
< X-Oauth-Scopes: repo, write:discussion
< X-Accepted-Oauth-Scopes: repo
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$ git rev-list --cherry-pick --right-only --no-merges origin/issue/1072/team-finalist-schedule...
> POST https://api.github.com/repos/jpschewe/fll-sw/pulls
> Authorization: token [REDACTED]
> Accept: application/vnd.github.shadow-cat-preview+json;charset=utf-8
{"base":"master","head":"jpschewe:issue/1072/team-finalist-schedule","issue":1072,"maintainer_can_modify":true}
< HTTP 422
< X-Oauth-Scopes: repo, write:discussion
{"message":"Validation Failed","errors":[{"resource":"PullRequest","field":"base","code":"invalid"}],"documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/pulls#create-a-pull-request"}

Looking at the comments in #189 I'm wondering if my configuration of push.default is the problem

git config push.default
nothing

I have this set so that I need to be explicit on what I push. Perhaps this setting isn't compatible with hub.

When I add "-b main" to the command line it works fine.

[TheoBrigitte]

I faced this issue many time already, this is due to the local origin/HEAD in your git repository to hold a different value than the actual upstream origin/HEAD (aka default branch on github)

I solved this by running the following command

$ git remote set-head origin -a
origin/HEAD set to main

This actually update the local ref origin/HEAD with the value from the remote repositoriy. Unfortunately this ref is not updated along with other refs when using git fetch.
More details at : https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/03/31/git-origin-head/

[jpschewe]

@TheoBrigitte that works well for me, thank you.