From 51ca6953293c7282602cd99480390d09d24e17e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Olivaw[bot]" <olivaw@iterative.ai>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:20:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: add target branch option to define the target
 branch when creating the pull requests instead of defaulting to the currently
 selected branch

---
 bin/cml/pr/create.js |  4 ++++
 src/cml.js           | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/cml/pr/create.js b/bin/cml/pr/create.js
index 035937c40..953a1b536 100755
--- a/bin/cml/pr/create.js
+++ b/bin/cml/pr/create.js
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ exports.options = kebabcaseKeys({
     type: 'string',
     description: 'Pull request branch name'
   },
+  targetBranch: {
+    type: 'string',
+    description: 'Pull request target branch name'
+  },
   title: {
     type: 'string',
     description: 'Pull request title'
diff --git a/src/cml.js b/src/cml.js
index 4c1507cd5..f40efc126 100644
--- a/src/cml.js
+++ b/src/cml.js
@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ class CML {
       md,
       skipCi,
       branch,
+      targetBranch,
       message,
       title,
       body,
@@ -545,7 +546,22 @@ class CML {
     const sha = await this.triggerSha();
     const shaShort = sha.substr(0, 8);
 
-    const target = await this.branch();
+    let target = await this.branch();
+    const targetBranchExists =
+      targetBranch &&
+      (
+        await exec(
+          'git',
+          'ls-remote',
+          await exec('git', 'config', '--get', `remote.${remote}.url`),
+          targetBranch
+        )
+      ).includes(targetBranch);
+
+    if (targetBranchExists) {
+      target = targetBranch;
+    }
+
     const source = branch || `${target}-cml-pr-${shaShort}`;
 
     const branchExists = (

From 66c9a81c481cee29e3b201c13adc38bd08ab22dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Olivaw[bot]" <olivaw@iterative.ai>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:33:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] feat: add suggested changes

---
 src/cml.js | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cml.js b/src/cml.js
index f40efc126..003aeae63 100644
--- a/src/cml.js
+++ b/src/cml.js
@@ -547,19 +547,22 @@ class CML {
     const shaShort = sha.substr(0, 8);
 
     let target = await this.branch();
-    const targetBranchExists =
-      targetBranch &&
-      (
+
+    if (targetBranch) {
+      try {
         await exec(
           'git',
           'ls-remote',
+          '--exit-code',
           await exec('git', 'config', '--get', `remote.${remote}.url`),
           targetBranch
-        )
-      ).includes(targetBranch);
+        );
 
-    if (targetBranchExists) {
-      target = targetBranch;
+        target = targetBranch;
+      } catch (error) {
+        winston.error('The target branch does not exist.');
+        process.exit(1);
+      }
     }
 
     const source = branch || `${target}-cml-pr-${shaShort}`;