Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
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 = git@github.com: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:
| /** | |
| * Mark and Sweep Garbage Collection technique. | |
| * MIT Style License | |
| * by Dmitry Soshnikov | |
| */ | |
| // This diff describes the simplest version of mark and sweep | |
| // GC in order to understand the basic idea. In real practice the | |
| // implementation can be much tricker and more optimized. |
| var parser = document.createElement('a'); | |
| parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash"; | |
| parser.protocol; // => "http:" | |
| parser.hostname; // => "example.com" | |
| parser.port; // => "3000" | |
| parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/" | |
| parser.search; // => "?search=test" | |
| parser.hash; // => "#hash" | |
| parser.host; // => "example.com:3000" |