What is the correct git config for working with GitHub pull requests?

Question

I\'m aware of How can I check out a GitHub pull request?

While adding fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to .git/config does al

Answer 1

You've only fetched branches, not pull requests. Add this to your config:

fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/pulls/origin/pr/*

After that you can checkout a branch that points to a PR remote ref:

git checkout -b "pr-123" pulls/origin/pr/123

Generally, you can check out a ref if you've fetched it from the remote, so look through the git fetch command output and find the PR's ref name. That's what you should put in the checkout command. You should see something like:

[new ref] refs/pull/123/head -> refs/pulls/origin/pr/123

Note that you can substitute the pulls part for any custom prefix. You can now create a branch and point it to pulls/origin/pr/123, which is equivalent to refs/pulls/origin/pr/123 (see git refspec doc).