Reducing work using pull request refs

16 Mar 2017 Comments

Refspecs are cool and you should not fear them. They are simple mappings from remote branches to local references, in other words a straight forward way to tell git “this remote branch (or this set of remote branches), should be mapped to these names locally, in this name space.”

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/08/how-to-fetch-pull-requests/

To checkout a pull request locally:

git fetch origin +refs/pull-requests/your-pr-number/from:local-branch-name

Or add the refspec that will map remote pull requests heads to a local pr name space. You can do it with a config command

git config --add remote.origin.fetch '+refs/pull-requests/*/from:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*'
git fetch origin
git checkout pr/1

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