git-req | merge requests from your GitLab/GitHub hosted repositories | Command Line Interface library
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Check out merge requests from your GitLab/GitHub hosted repositories from the command line with just the request number.
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QUESTION
What is git request-pull
and how does it compare to making a pull request
, e.g. on github?
1. How is it supposed to be used?
2. Can it be used as replacement for pull requests (e.g. on github)?
3. What are the advantages of using it?
...ANSWER
Answered 2018-Mar-22 at 16:42The git request-pull
command predates hosting services. As noted in comments, it's meant for a workflow that tends to include running git format-patch
and git send-email
to pass patches around via email. Once the patches have been tested and approved, the patch-generator might make the commits accessible on a public server that they or their company provide, and send a final email message to the project maintainer announcing that they have the cleaned-up, rebased, etc., project-topic ready for merging.
For example, suppose a guy named Phil Systeme has a Linux kernel patch for a file system. He has a clone of the Linux kernel tree, as of some Linux release. His patch consists of one giant commit to a dozen or so files, which he sends to the file-system maintenance list, with a subject line:
QUESTION
I see documentation here: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
But I'm not sure how to apply it to what I'm trying to to do. I pushed to branch called "fix/fixNumberHere" and I want to merge to a branch called "mergeBranch" using a pull request -- how to do I apply that to :
...ANSWER
Answered 2017-Sep-29 at 02:23I think you would use this syntax:
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Install git-req
Install it: Homebrew (MacOS)
brew tap arusahni/git-req
brew install git-req AUR (Arch Linux)
yay -Sy git-req DEB (Debian / Ubuntu Linux)
[Download the *.deb file from the release page](https://github.com/arusahni/git-req/releases/latest).
dpkg -i /path/to/file.deb Everyone else
[Download the binary for your operating system from the release page](https://github.com/arusahni/git-req/releases/latest)
Decompress the archive
Place the git-req executable somewhere in your $PATH
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