kshultzcb / creates-and-deletes

Simple project to allow creation and deletion of PRs from a shell

What's here?

Simple repository to create and delete pull requests from. Used for testing of github-branch-source plugin, among probably other things.

Prerequisites

1. An up to date Linux system on which to do this. Might work on a Mac - I haven't tried.

2. You need hub installed and on your path. More on that below.

Installing Hub

I've found that the binaries provided by package managers (like apt-get, dnf, etc) aren't feature complete. In particular the -p switch was often missing or broken. So I decided to follow, exactly, the steps provided by GitHub themselves, here, and unsurprisingly, that worked:

mkdir -p "$GOPATH"/src/github.com/github
git clone \
  --config transfer.fsckobjects=false \
  --config receive.fsckobjects=false \
  --config fetch.fsckobjects=false \
  https://github.com/github/hub.git "$GOPATH"/src/github.com/github/hub
cd "$GOPATH"/src/github.com/github/hub
make install prefix=/usr/local

It'll probably bark at you for not having write access to /usr/local but somehow worked anyway.

kshultz@gigantic-laptop:~/GitHub$ hub version
git version 2.19.1
hub version 2.9.0-7-g2b67d8c3

Using Hub with Github Enterprise

If you want to push this repo onto a GitHub Enterprise server of your own, you'll need to whitelist that server so that hub will talk to it:

git config --add hub.host your.github-enterprise-server.org