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Reliant works with the git repository on the chat’s machine. The Changes tab in the right sidebar of a chat shows the branch you are on, how far it is ahead of or behind its upstream, and the files that changed, grouped as Staged, Changes and Untracked. From there you can stage or discard files, commit, push, pull and open a pull request.

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Committing and pushing

Committing happens in a workspace. The Changes tab of a chat that runs in a workspace has a commit box: write a message and choose Commit, or use the arrow button beside it (Cmd+Shift+Enter) to commit and push in one step. When the branch has commits the remote doesn’t, a Push button shows how many; when the remote has commits you don’t, Pull does the same. A chat on the project’s main checkout shows its changes read-only, because writes go through a workspace. Pushing uses plain git push to origin. On a Reliant cloud machine, git gets your GitHub token from Reliant at the moment it needs one, through the connection in Settings → GitHub, and no token is ever stored on the machine. On your own computer, git uses whatever credentials that computer already has for the remote.

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Pull requests

Once a workspace’s branch is pushed, the Changes tab offers to open a pull request for it, with a title and description you write. If the branch already has one, the same button opens it on GitHub instead. Creating a pull request, and finding the one a branch already has, use the GitHub CLI (gh) on the chat’s machine. If gh isn’t installed, the button says so and links to cli.github.com. Everything else in the Changes tab works without it.

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Installing GitHub CLI

Then sign it in on that machine with gh auth login and follow the prompts.

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Default branch detection

To know what a workspace branches from and what a pull request targets, Reliant works out the repository’s default branch. It reads origin/HEAD first, which a normal clone sets. If that isn’t set, it asks gh, then git remote show origin, and finally falls back to main or master, whichever exists on the remote.