timmytofu

# unregister broken GHC packages. Run this a few times to resolve dependency rot in installed packages.
# ghc-pkg-clean -f cabal/dev/packages*.conf also works.
function ghc-pkg-clean() {
  for p in `ghc-pkg check $* 2>&1  | grep problems | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/:$//'`
  do
    echo unregistering $p; ghc-pkg $* unregister $p
  done
}

# remove all installed GHC/cabal packages, leaving ~/.cabal binaries and docs in place.

piscisaureus

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: