RFR: Improve the Download message in PR description

Erik Helin ehelin at openjdk.java.net
Wed Mar 17 10:34:27 UTC 2021


On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:56:21 GMT, Volker Simonis <simonis at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Both @simonis and I have struggled of finding the proper way to update a checked-out PR. Let's update the help text with Volker's findings of the best way to do this!
>
> Thanks @magicus  for updating the download message and thanks @edvbld for shedding some light on how to properly define an upstream for pull requests :) If I understand you correct, with that setup a `git fetch upstream` will fetch *all* pull requests from upstream. Is that correct?

@simonis yep, that is correct. As usual when you fetch refs from a remote they will only becomes refs under `refs/remote/<remote-name>/<branch-name>`, so you won't see all the refs when running e.g. `git branch` (you would have to run `git branch -a`).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/skara/pull/1053


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