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Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

Now add this lines:

[remote "github"]
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git
	fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/github/pr/*

Now fetch all the pull requests:

$ git fetch github
From github.com:joyent/node
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1000/head -> origin/pr/1000
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1002/head -> origin/pr/1002
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1004/head -> origin/pr/1004
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1009/head -> origin/pr/1009
...

To check out a particular pull request:

$ git checkout pr/999
Branch pr/999 set up to track remote branch pr/999 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'pr/999'

To merge one pull-request

$ git merge github/pr/387
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