[SciPy-Dev] git question: fetch a PR without merging into master

[Warren Weckesser]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Warren Weckesser
> <warren.weckesser at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Does anyone have a git recipe for grabbing a pull request from github
> > without merging it into master?  Ideally, I'd like to branch from the
> same
> > point the PR branches from master, and not merge the branch back into
> > master.  The use case is to test pull requests that have merge conflicts.
> > I'd like to be able to experiment with the PR, while putting off
> resolving
> > the merge conflicts until later.
>
> maybe something like this, if you are not on Windows
> (I never tried but something like this made the mailing lists a while ago.)
>
> https://github.com/splitbrain/git-pull-request
>
> Josef
>
>

Thanks Josef, that looks nice, I'll have to try it out--but Puneeth's
second suggestion might make it moot!

Warren


>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Warren
> >
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