Hi Devs, *Problem*
We normally merge pull requests using the GitHub UI. But it might have few problems, specially when the pull request contains many modifications. 1. Can't assure the build stability after the merge. 2. Hard to code review the pull request using the GitHub diff viewer since it has not IDE support. Other than that, if we treat the UI is only option to merge a pull request, other fork owners can't try out the pull request change until it is merged to the base repo. *Solution* Merging the pull request locally is the solution. Once the pull request is merged locally, we can ... 1. Code review it using an IDE 2. Build and test the repo As per GitHub's instructions you can merge a pull request locally using few git commands. I wrote this small script [1] to perform this task. This script allows you to merge a pull request to another fork too (when the 'strict' mode is disabled). Few of my colleagues and I did few test runs and it worked fine. (Thanks RuwanA for your feedback) You can give it a try and let me know the feedback. I believe that I have added a comprehensive README, but please ping me if you need any clarification. Thanks Rushmin *[1] - https://github.com/rushmin/ci-tools <https://github.com/rushmin/ci-tools>* -- *Rushmin Fernando* *Technical Lead* WSO2 Inc. <http://wso2.com/> - Lean . Enterprise . Middleware email : rush...@wso2.com mobile : +94772310855
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