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Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

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

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
# This code works for dagolden, based on a program originally by rjbs. It
# might not work for you. You are hereby empowered to do anything you want
# with this code, including fixing its bugs and redistributing it with your
# own license and API and whatever you want. It'd be nice if you mentioned
# dagolden and rjbs in your fork, but if you don't want to, that's just fine.
#
# The only thing you can't do is act like there's some guarantee that this
# code will actually work or even refrain from blowing stuff up. You're on
# your own. -- rjbs, 2014-04-23 and dagolden, 2016-07-06