karlhorky · January 9, 2025 09:01 · Jun 21, 2020 · Jun 21, 2020 · Aug 3, 2016 · Aug 3, 2016
diff --git a/pr.md b/pr.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 You may not need local branches for **all** pull requests in a repo.
 
-To fetch only the branch that you need, use this:
+To fetch only the ref of a single pull request that you need, use this:
 
 ```sh
 git fetch origin pull/7324/head:pr-7324

diff --git a/pr.md b/pr.md
@@ -2,7 +2,16 @@
 
 You may not need local branches for **all** pull requests in a repo.
 
-To fetch only the branch that you need, use [Fetch and delete refs to GitHub pull request branches](https://gist.github.com/karlhorky/0c454c0c6f894c27911ed5de58d65416)
+To fetch only the branch that you need, use this:
+
+```sh
+git fetch origin pull/7324/head:pr-7324
+git checkout pr-7324
+# ...
+git branch -D pr-7324
+```
+
+Or, another option is this: [Fetch and delete refs to GitHub pull request branches](https://gist.github.com/karlhorky/0c454c0c6f894c27911ed5de58d65416)
 
 If you do for some reason need all pull request branches locally, continue on.
 

diff --git a/pr.md b/pr.md
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-**NOTE:** To fetch only the branch that you need, use [Fetch and delete refs to GitHub pull request branches](https://gist.github.com/karlhorky/0c454c0c6f894c27911ed5de58d65416)
+**NOTE**
+
+You may not need local branches for **all** pull requests in a repo.
+
+To fetch only the branch that you need, use [Fetch and delete refs to GitHub pull request branches](https://gist.github.com/karlhorky/0c454c0c6f894c27911ed5de58d65416)
+
+If you do for some reason need all pull request branches locally, continue on.
+
+---
 
 Locate the section for your github remote in the `.git/config` file. It looks like this:
 

diff --git a/pr.md b/pr.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-**NOTE** To fetch only the branch that you need, use [Fetch and delete refs to GitHub pull request branches](https://gist.github.com/karlhorky/0c454c0c6f894c27911ed5de58d65416)
+**NOTE:** To fetch only the branch that you need, use [Fetch and delete refs to GitHub pull request branches](https://gist.github.com/karlhorky/0c454c0c6f894c27911ed5de58d65416)
 
 Locate the section for your github remote in the `.git/config` file. It looks like this:
 

diff --git a/pr.md b/pr.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+**NOTE** To fetch only the branch that you need, use [Fetch and delete refs to GitHub pull request branches](https://gist.github.com/karlhorky/0c454c0c6f894c27911ed5de58d65416)
+
 Locate the section for your github remote in the `.git/config` file. It looks like this:
 
 ```

diff --git a/pr.md b/pr.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Now add the line `fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*` to this se
 [remote "origin"]
 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
 	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git
-	fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*```
+	fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*
 ```
 
 Now fetch all the pull requests:

diff --git a/pr.md b/pr.md
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 Locate the section for your github remote in the `.git/config` file. It looks like this:
 
 ```
@@ -32,8 +31,7 @@ To check out a particular pull request:
 
 ```
 $ git checkout pr/999
-D:\node4>git checkout pr/999
-Branch pr/999 set up to track remote branch pr/1300 from origin.
+Branch pr/999 set up to track remote branch pr/999 from origin.
 Switched to a new branch 'pr/999'
 ```
 
diff --git a/pr.md b/pr.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+
+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 = git@github.com: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:
+
+```
+[remote "origin"]
+	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
+	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git
+	fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*```
+```
+
+Now fetch all the pull requests:
+
+```
+$ git fetch origin
+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
+D:\node4>git checkout pr/999
+Branch pr/999 set up to track remote branch pr/1300 from origin.
+Switched to a new branch 'pr/999'
+```
+
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