Reviewing Pull Requests

Just a quick cheat-sheet for reference.

Someone submits a PR, you want to view it in the dev environment.

Step 1: create a new branch on your desktop, and pull the PR from their repo

We need to know: (a) what repo the PR is from, and (b) what branch are they on.

In tortoise git:

• Create a new branch called: "username-branchname" (i.e. bobby-master)
• Pull, with arbitrary URL to be: https://github.com/bobby/.git, using the remote branch name of their repo: i.e. branchname

Step 2: Do whatever commits you like. Use messages they are going to read.

Step 3: Push commits to PR

• Push, from Local: "username-branch", to Remote branch: "branchname", using Arbitrary URL: https://github.com/bobby/.git

If all goes well, my commits on their branch will appear in the PR on github.

Then comments can be made to the PR thread.