I made myself a "git review" subcommand which takes a user:branch pair pasted from a pull request page, like abbeyj:macro-use-extents, and does the fetch and checkout to get me ready to try it out. It's like 2 lines, but it's remarkable the mental weight it lifts. I no longer dread reviews. Just stick it in a file called "git-review" (no extensi…

git-review

#!/usr/bin/env python

from subprocess import check_output
from sys import argv

def main():
    user, branch = argv[1].split(':')
    check_output('hub fetch %s' % user, shell=True)
    check_output('git checkout %s/%s' % (user, branch), shell=True)
    print 'Now reviewing %s:%s.' % (user, branch)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()