headed in the right direction. Needs tests and to be cleaned up. This is a working example of the teams design combined with https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/4859#issuecomment-1012776582

pkg/cmd/config/base/base.go

@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-package base
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"net/http"
-
-	"github.com/MakeNowJust/heredoc"
-	"github.com/cli/cli/v2/api"
-	"github.com/cli/cli/v2/context"
-	"github.com/cli/cli/v2/git"
-	"github.com/cli/cli/v2/internal/ghrepo"
-	"github.com/cli/cli/v2/pkg/cmdutil"
-	"github.com/cli/cli/v2/pkg/iostreams"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-)
-
-type BaseOptions struct {
-	IO         *iostreams.IOStreams
-	Remotes    func() (context.Remotes, error)
-	BaseRepo   func() (ghrepo.Interface, error)
-	HttpClient func() (*http.Client, error)
-
-	RemoteName string
-	ViewFlag   bool
-}
-
-func NewCmdConfigBase(f *cmdutil.Factory, runF func(*BaseOptions) error) *cobra.Command {
-	opts := &BaseOptions{
-		IO:         f.IOStreams,
-		HttpClient: f.HttpClient,
-		BaseRepo:   f.BaseRepo,
-		Remotes:    f.Remotes,
-	}
-
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "base <git remote name>",
-		Short: "Configure the base repository used for various commands",
-		Long: heredoc.Doc(`
-		The base repository is used to determine which repository gh
-		should automatically query for the commands:
-			issue, pr, browse, run, repo rename, secret, workflow
-		`),
-		Example: heredoc.Doc(`
-			$ gh base upstream
-		`),
-		Args: cobra.MaximumNArgs(1),
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			if len(args) > 0 {
-				opts.RemoteName = args[0]
-			}
-			if err := cmdutil.MutuallyExclusive(
-				"args cannot be passed in with --view",
-				opts.RemoteName != "",
-				opts.ViewFlag,
-			); err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-
-			if runF != nil {
-				return runF(opts)
-			}
-			return baseRun(opts)
-		},
-	}
-
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&opts.ViewFlag, "view", "v", false, "View the current configured default repository")
-	return cmd
-}
-
-func baseRun(opts *BaseOptions) error {
-	remotes, err := opts.Remotes()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	if opts.ViewFlag {
-		for _, remote := range remotes {
-			if remote.Resolved == "base" {
-				fmt.Println(remote.Remote.Name)
-				return nil
-			}
-		}
-		return fmt.Errorf("base repo has not been specified yet")
-	}
-
-	if opts.RemoteName != "" {
-		for _, remote := range remotes {
-			if opts.RemoteName == remote.Remote.Name {
-				removeBaseRepo(remotes)
-				git.SetRemoteResolution(remote.Name, "base")
-				return nil
-			}
-		}
-		return fmt.Errorf("could not find local remote name %s", opts.RemoteName)
-	}
-	removeBaseRepo(remotes)
-	httpClient, err := opts.HttpClient()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	apiClient := api.NewClientFromHTTP(httpClient)
-	repoContext, err := context.ResolveRemotesToRepos(remotes, apiClient, "")
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	_, err = repoContext.BaseRepo(opts.IO)
-	return err
-}
-
-func removeBaseRepo(remotes context.Remotes) {
-	for _, remote := range remotes {
-		if remote.Resolved == "base" {
-			remote.Resolved = ""
-			git.RemoveRemoteResolution(remote.Remote.Name)
-		}
-	}
-}