Aim
To merge a pull request.
How?
Let’s take Staticman PR 231 as an example. I would like to test it before commiting this merget to Heroku.
$ cd ~/staticman
$ git branch -a
* deploy
dev
master
...
$ git remote -v
eduardoboucas https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman.git (fetch)
eduardoboucas https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman.git (push)
heroku https://git.heroku.com/staticman3.git (fetch)
heroku https://git.heroku.com/staticman3.git (push)
...
$ git pull eduardoboucas pull/231/head:deploy
remote: Enumerating objects: 10, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (10/10), done.
remote: Total 18 (delta 10), reused 10 (delta 10), pack-reused 8
Unpacking objects: 100% (18/18), done.
From https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman
! [rejected] refs/pull/231/head -> deploy (non-fast-forward)
I executed the last command on branch dev. I didn’t have time to figure out
the reason for this error. The following commands should work.
$ git fetch eduardoboucas pull/231/head
From https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman
* branch refs/pull/231/head -> FETCH_HEAD
$ git merge FETCH_HEAD
Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
controllers/auth.js | 6 ++---
coverage/cobertura-coverage.xml | 32 +++++++++++------------
test/unit/controllers/auth.test.js | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------------------------------
3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
A merge commit has two parents. The second is the one merged from another
branch, and it’s referred as HEAD^2.
To see the overall change of the merged branch, a more useful command is
git diff HEAD^..HEAD --stat.
After some local testing (which I didn’t perform), I pushed this merge commit so as to update the my testing Staticman v3 API.