Testing merge requests

[James Browning]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 9:47 PM Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>
wrote:

> [Was: Subject: Re: ntpleapfetch broken on FreeBSD 11.2 or NetBSD 8.0]
>
> > I was working on that a little try checking out merge request !831
>
> How do I do that?
>
> That should be simple, but it's not in my working set.  I think I asked a
> while ago and didn't get an answer that stuck.  There is probably an
> interesting property in git or gitlab that I don't understand.
>
> I need a way to back out if I don't like the change.  Work in a clone and
> throw it away if you don't like it is a possible answer, but I expect
> there is
> something better.
>
>
> --
> These are my opinions.  I hate spam.
>
What I would do I I were checking out say Pauls work on ./docs would be to
'git remote add' his upstream repository mirror to my working repository.
Somehow I don't think that was the answer you were looking for, but it's
all I've got.
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