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

Fetch/Checkout Pull Requests

This works for bitbucket. Other server could have different refs: (refspecs) or no refs: at all.

First Time

First of all you need to add the pull request refs: of the remote repository. To do that to a repository (e.g. aliased 'upstream'):

git config --add remote.upstream.fetch '+refs/pull-requests/*/from:refs/remotes/upstream/pull-requests/*'

That is, you add the last line on git .config file:

[remote "origin"]
   url = ssh://git@git.blablabla.net/~user/repository.git
   fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
   fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pull-requests/*

Fetching

Then if you perform the remote fetch you should see the retrieval of (also) all the pull requests:

git fetch upstream

From ssh://git.blablabla.net/somepath/repository
 * [new ref]         refs/pull-requests/1188/from -> upstream/pull-requests/1188
 * [new ref]         refs/pull-requests/1741/from -> upstream/pull-requests/1741
 * [new ref]         refs/pull-requests/2394/from -> upstream/pull-requests/2394

Checking out

Finally you can checkout the pull-request you prefer:

git checkout pull-requests/2723

Successfully tested on dedicated bitbucket server 27/02/19.