How can I check out a GitHub pull request?
I'd like to check out a previously created pull request (created via GitHub web interface). I searched and found different places where a refs/pull or refs/pull/pr But when I add fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to the git config file and do a git fetch What I'm doing wrong? Should GitHub create automatically the pull/xyz stuff, or do I have to configure something? timbo To fetch a remote PR into your local repo, git fetch origin pull/ID/head:BRANCHNAME where ID is the pull request id and BRANCHNAME is the name of the new branch that you want to create. Once you have created