As a tech lead/configuration manager, I would like to have the ability to have a pull request created upon the creation of a new branch. We would like to explore use of a Work-in-Progress pull request model. By creating a pull request immediately after branch creation, reviewers for the pull request would receive notification whenever a developer pushes a commit to their development branch and reviewers would be more in tune to the changes going in and be able to perform continuous reviews as work proceeds instead of waiting until the developer has done the majority of the work and think they are ready for their changes to be incorporated into the release branch.

We realize that there are other ways to achieve this, but currently there are no built in notifications for branches that allow a reviewer to easily 'watch' a branch as commits are made. Currently, if you attempt to create a Pull Request for a branch that has no new changes on it, the action is prevented:
i.e. "Branch "master" is already up-to-date with branch "NewFeature" in repository "gittesting"."

We would like this notification to include the option to create the pull request anyway after the warning.

For additional information on this use case, you can refer to these presentation slides:
https://speakerdeck.com/thedaniel/developing-in-public