I have an opensrc project on bitbucket- https://bitbucket.org/ijabz/jaudiotagger/src/master/README.md

I have some pull requests by contributors to review.

In the past I have just checked the code and then merged the code into the remote master branch on Bitbucket using the Merge button. But these pull requests are too complex for that I need to merge with my local master branch on my computer, build and test it, and then only if okay merge it into the remote master branch.

But I dont know how to do this ?

CodePudding user response：

The branch you want to merge isn't part of your repository yet; it's only in the contributors repository. You'll need to create a new remote first.

git remote add mvmn ... # You'll need the contributor's fork's URL
git remote update mvmn
git checkout -b pr69 --track mvmn/generics_refactoring
git merge master

After you are done testing, you can delete the generics_refactoring branch (after checking out another branch, of course)

git branch -D pr69

CodePudding user response：

Whoever did the pull request has the changes in one branch feature, for example. If you can do git fetch <your remote>, then the branch feature will be available for you. Now, you should run git checkout <your master branch>, just in case you are not there, then run git merge feature.

With that done you should be able to run your tests locally before merging the feature branch in your remote master