Testing forked branches

[Drew Shotwell]

I'm looking into working on an issue in git, and I'm wondering how to properly go about testing someone else's branch. Let's take for instance https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/35414. Essentially what I want to do is get the code changes from the forked branch videlec:complex-root-of-to-algebraic into my repository so I can test them in parallel with the develop branch. My own research has opened an overwhelming number of different ways for doing this, so I figured I'd ask here to get the most straight forward answer. Thank you.

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, 20:24 Drew Shotwell, <drewsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm looking into working on an issue in git, and I'm wondering how to properly go about testing someone else's branch. Let's take for instance https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/35414.

suppose you have remote foo set to

https://github.com/sagemath/sage

then

git fetch foo pull/35414/head:pr35414

will create the branch named pr35414 you want

Essentially what I want to do is get the code changes from the forked branch videlec:complex-root-of-to-algebraic into my repository so I can test them in parallel with the develop branch. My own research has opened an overwhelming number of different ways for doing this, so I figured I'd ask here to get the most straight forward answer. Thank you.

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[G. M.-S.]

Thanks Dima and Drew.

I had the very same question, but zero ways for doing it, so I did not dare ask…

Guillermo

[John H Palmieri]

I have found the instructions at https://github.com/sagemath/trac-to-github/blob/master/docs/Migration-Trac-to-Github.md useful for me, as someone used to the old trac interface.

[Dima Pasechnik]

another option is to use gh tool from GitHub.

gh pr checkout 35414

would do the same as

git fetch foo pull/35414/head:pr35414 && git checkout pr35414

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[G. M.-S.]

You are right, John.  I did not read it carefully enough.

Guillermo