如何在 github 上一次测试多个拉取请求？

Question

I reported a bug to an open-source repository on Github. They acknowledged the bug and created multiple pull-requests that supposedly fixed the bug. The problem is I don't know how I can easily test it out. If they only create a single PR, I know I can easily test it out with

git fetch upstream pull/<pullrequest_id>/head:pr
git checkout pr

Checkout to one of the PR and manually apply the rest is very tedious because the changes for each of the PR are huge. What is an easy way for me to test all the PRs at once? The reason they create multiple pull-requests is that they breakdown the bug I filed into multiple sub-bugs, and each of the PRs fixes each sub-bug.

Answer 1

One solution is to fetch all the PR branches. For example, you can do this one at a time with git fetch upstream pull/<id>/head . Then create a local branch to merge all of the PR branches into:

git checkout -b bug_fix master
git merge pull/<id>/head #repeat for each PR

This will allow you to test them all in aggregate, but not individually.

If you need to test each PR individually, and you can do this with the automated test suite, you could write a bash script or batch file to iterate over the list of PRs.