Checkout bitbucket pull requests locally

Question

I found this gist, showing how to check out a pull request locally from GitHub.

I\'m using bitbucket and I\'m looking for a similar function.

Can you help m

Answer 1

I found this answer and thought that it was actually possible to fetch refs for a pull request on bitbucket.

But it's not.

The answer for the OP's question is that it is NOT possible: there's been an open feature request issue about it that has been unanswered and unattended for four five SIX SEVEN years.

The workaround?

You can get the PR as a downloadable .patch file you can download and apply to a new branch you create manually. But you won't easily be able to apply updates.

I figured another way out, which I've implemented in git-repo, so everybody can use it. What I'm doing is use the API to get the PR's remote and branch, and automatically create a new upstream and branch locally. That way you can get updates from the PR poster. The downside is the clutter of git remotes.

edit: I hope this gets done and the feature request is closed. But there has been a solution for this on dedicated bitbucket servers for some time now, but not on the bitbucket.org service. On June 5th, a bitbucket staff member commented on this ticket:

Hi y'all -- thanks again for your feedback and patience on this issue. This feature is still high on the priority list in the backlog. When we have more information to share about the expected delivery of this feature, we will share it here.