How to perform status checks in github repository

Question

I have a GitHub repository in which I protected one branch with the new feature of Protected Branches.

Now my problem is that I wish to perform the status check in the system and then commit and push it to the GitHub repo.

Problem: where do I perform such status checks and how do I send the message to the GitHub server that the status checks have been cleared?

Answer 1

where do I perform such status checks

In the same place you set up status checks: settings/branches (select your branch)

and how do I send the message to the GitHub server that the status checks have been cleared

Those checks are updated when you push from your local repo to that branch.

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In order to send a success status, you can follow Building a CI server: it will use the Status API.
The Status API is responsible for tying together commits with a testing service, so that every push you make can be tested and represented in a GitHub pull request.

def process_pull_request(pull_request)
  @client.create_status(pull_request['base']['repo']['full_name'], pull_request['head']['sha'], 'pending')
  sleep 2 # do busy work...
  @client.create_status(pull_request['base']['repo']['full_name'], pull_request['head']['sha'], 'success')
  puts "Pull request processed!"
end

We're doing three very basic things here:

• we're looking up the full name of the repository
• we're looking up the last SHA of the pull request
• we're setting the status to "success"