How to test a Pull Request

Prerequisites

• Working frappe-bench with erpnext and frappe installed. Installed apps, Frappe and ERPNext must be on develop branch. (Generally feature pull requests are in develop branch)
• refer bench readme

Steps :

change to app's directory and add git remotes/branches follow these commands for erpnext:

~/frappe-bench$ cd apps/erpnext
~/frappe-bench/apps/erpnext$ git remote add mntechnique https://github.com/mntechnique/erpnext
~/frappe-bench/apps/erpnext$ git fetch mntechnique --unshallow 

drop option --unshallow if error - fatal: --unshallow on a complete repository does not make sense Alternatively only the required branch can be fetched with

~/frappe-bench/apps/erpnext$ git fetch mntechnique consolidation:consolidation

set tracking branch if required

~/frappe-bench/apps/erpnext$ git branch -u mntechnique/consolidation 

Branch consolidation set up to track remote branch consolidation from mntechnique.

Pull and Migrate

if bench update doesn't work because of changed branches, pull and migrate can be used

checkout to the fetched branch from which pull request is made and pull changes

~/frappe-bench/apps/erpnext$ git checkout consolidation
~/frappe-bench/apps/erpnext$ git pull mntechnique consolidation

Migrate changes :

~/frappe-bench/apps/erpnext$ cd ../../
~/frappe-bench$ bench --site <testing_site> migrate

Same commands can be used to add remote to frappe git directory

Test and comment on pull requests / issue

Note : manually edit file .git/config to fetch all branches instead on just one.

~/frappe-bench/apps/erpnext$ subl .git/config

file should look like this, change the fetch = +refs/heads/develop:... to fetch = +refs/heads/*:...

[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[remote "upstream"]
        url = https://github.com/frappe/erpnext
        fetch = +refs/heads/develop:refs/remotes/upstream/develop
[branch "develop"]
        remote = mntechnique
        merge = refs/heads/develop
[remote "mntechnique"]
        url = https://github.com/mntechnique/erpnext
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/mntechnique/*
[branch "consolidation"]
        remote = mntechnique
        merge = refs/heads/consolidation

remote mntechnique fetches all branches while upstream only develop in the above case