GitHub theme integration - theme duplication

[Cavera]

I have been getting more into theme development using Shopify's GitHub integration which is pretty great. I have run into an issue I've been working around and would like to ask if anyone has found a better way of doing this. If not, I have a feature request.

So, If I install my theme using the GitHub integration, it all works fine however as soon as that theme is copied in Shopify, the copy is no longer connected to the Repo and appears to be completely independent. What I've been doing to get around this is instead of copying theme's in Shopify, I branch my theme in GitHub and then add that branch to Shopify. That keeps everything connected and I can easily merge changes through  the branches in GitHub.

So, first question, does anyone have a better workflow than this? Second question, I think it would be really amazing if when someone copies a theme in Shopify, if that theme is connected to a GitHub repo, a new branch is created in that repo automatically, containing the new theme. If that's already possible, please tell me how. If not, Shopify, let's add that functionality.

[heyrohit]

I'm shocked there is no solution from shopify yet.