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Checkout a branch on a fork.md

Review or extend a feature branch on a fork

Review a feature branch on someone's fork of upstream, not upstream itself

git remote add user [email protected]:theirusername/reponame.git
git checkout theirusername/theirbranch

Make changes to a feature branch on someone's fork of upstream, not upstream itself

git remote add user [email protected]:theirusername/reponame.git
git fetch theirusername
git checkout -b mynamefortheirbranch theirusername/theirbranch

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/9153737/2145103

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