Allow configuration of default branch in pull requests

[hoersamu]

It would be great if there was a setting to select the default branch to merge into when opening PRs.

[odil-io]

I would love to overrule the Default Branch setting from GitHub (or other VCS) to avoid conflicts. As I'm not always able (or permitted) to edit a Repo's settings.

[hannanelson]

It would be nice if the default branch to merge was the source branch (the branch you branched from).

[odil-io]

It would be nice if the default branch to merge was the source branch (the branch you branched from).

Exactly what I meant

[alexr00]

There is the setting githubPullRequests.overrideDefaultBranch, which lets you override the default branch for the repo.

[alexr00]

We also now guess which branch should be the base branch by looking at where you branched off from.

[jaunito76]

This guessing seems to default to the same branch that you are working on, can you still use the githubPullRequests.overrideDefaultBranch?

[alexr00]

This guessing seems to default to the same branch that you are working on

If you're using the pre-release version with VS Code insiders this should now be fixed.

If not, then you can use githubPullRequests.createDefaultBaseBranch.