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Last active August 29, 2015 14:19 — forked from piscisaureus/pr.md

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

  • This creates a 560mb ramdisk. Adjust the size accordingly. I think the number at the end of the command is the number of disk blocks. They are 2kb in size for me.
  • Restarting postgres is not necessary; you can create the ramdisk and tablespace while postgres is running.
  • You will lose all data in the ramdisk tablespace when you shut your machine down

  $ diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "postgres_ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1165430`
  Started erase on disk1
  Unmounting disk
  Erasing
 Initialized /dev/rdisk1 as a 569 MB HFS Plus volume