There's a github tool available for Mac OS X that makes testing pull request very simple, if I recall correctly.
http://mac.github.com/ https://github.com/blog/878-announcing-github-for-mac On 12 nov 2011, at 05:06, Michel Fortin wrote: > Le 2011-11-11 à 22:25, Walter Bright a écrit : > >> On 11/11/2011 10:50 AM, Brad Roberts wrote: >>> >>> The bigger issue, imho, is Walter's lack of trust in the automated testers. >> >> Another issue is when I do a pull, and it fails testing. This just happened. >> Things pretty much grind to a halt when that happens. I wish github had an >> "unpull" button. > > Then just don't use Github's pull button. Instead begin by adding a reference > to the requester's github repository in your local repository: > > git remote add {username} https://github.com/{username}/dmd.git > > Then pull its code directly from it: > > git pull {username}/{branchname} > > The pull is kept local until you push it yourself. You can thus run the tests > locally. Once you push those changes to Github, the pull request is > automatically closed. > > The interesting thing is that if you're not satisfied you can just erase the > pull and no one will notice (since it was all kept local). You can erase the > last commit created by the pull and return to how things were before the pull > like this: > > git reset --hard HEAD^ > > But don't do this if the commit was already pushed! If that's the case just > revert the commit. Rewriting the publicly accessible history will causes > problems for everyone (and git will complain when you try to push too). > Better not push until you've determined the pull was good. > > Note that if the merge had conflicts (and thus the pull was not > autocommited), running the command above will erase the last commit *before* > the pull, which is not what you want. You can get back to the clean state of > the last commit like this: > > git reset --hard > > I probably wrote all that in too much details. I hope it is helpful though. > > > -- > Michel Fortin > michel.for...@michelf.com > http://michelf.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > dmd-internals mailing list > dmd-internals@puremagic.com > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals -- /Jacob Carlborg _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list dmd-internals@puremagic.com http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
