Eclipse: any way to checkout a PR for review?

Jeanette Winzenburg fastegal at swingempire.de
Tue Jul 27 11:35:14 UTC 2021


ahh .. yeah, that looks doable - had hoped to get away without  
installing git and frickle with commandlines ;)

thanks

Zitat von Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>:

> I do something like this:
>
> git fetch upstream pull/569/head:pr_569
>
> Then you can checkout the "pr_569" branch. I typically will then  
> merge in the current upstream/master to test. If you don't have an  
> "upstream" remote you can instead:
>
> git fetch https://github.com/openjdk/jfx pull/569/head:pr_569
>
> -- Kevin
>
> On 7/27/2021 4:15 AM, Jeanette Winzenburg wrote:
>>
>> when reviewing a PR with only a few files changed, I simply create  
>> a local branch and c&p the changes (*cough, pretty sure there's a  
>> better way, but then that's the most simple ;).
>>
>> With changes to many files (like f.i.  
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/569) that still would be  
>> doable, but rather cumbersome - so looking for something like "gh  
>> pr checkout 569" (not that I ever tried that, just copied from the  
>> doc :) inside Eclipse.
>>
>> An alternative might be to fork-the-fork .. ?
>>
>> -- Jeanette
>>





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