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when working with github, pull requests are often across projects - e.g. https://github.com/water-fountains/proximap/pull/326 please provide a way to merge across the projects and see the changes before the receiving project (in the example at hand https://github.com/water-fountains/proximap "develop" branch) accepts them. The current Team->"Merge..." appears to only allow to do this with the own project ("Local" or "Remote Tracking").
I don't understand. From which perspective is this? 1. Owner of the original (water-fountains/proximap): can just fetch refs/pull/326/head into a local branch. See [1]. 2. Owner of the fork who created the PR: could fetch the develop branch from the original and rebase onto that before creating the PR. (It's a good idea anyway to sync the fork with the original before creating a PR. Nobody likes PRs based on old versions.) If this about making (1) easier, see bug 544815. [1] https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/checking-out-pull-requests-locally
Thomas, thx for the analysis. My role is 1) > can just fetch refs/pull/326/head into a local branch. See [1]. Is this only possible a) by command-line mix with eGit b) by doing MyLin overhead of bug 544815 comment 4 I am not particularly keen on doing ? If there is a c) to do it just in the eGit GUI, I would be interested in 2-3 annotated screenshots
No time to create screenshots now. Command line would be git fetch origin refs/pull/326/head:refs/heads/pr326 giving a local branch "pr326". In EGit you can do the same via "Team->Remote->Fetch From..." (package explorer) or "Remote->Fetch..." (repositories view).
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Created attachment 281771 [details] 2020-02-11 10_51_24-workspace - Eclipse IDE559856.png Screenshot step 3 ==> unfortunatly goes nowhere :(
(In reply to Ralf Hauser from comment #6) > Created attachment 281771 [details] > 2020-02-11 10_51_24-workspace - Eclipse IDE559856.png > > Screenshot step 3 > > ==> unfortunatly goes nowhere :( Of course. You fetched ref/heads/* into refs/remotes/origin/*. The Github pull-request refs are not in the refs/heads/* namespace. Try adding a refspec for refs/pull/326/head into refs/remotes/origin/pr326.
