git clone pull request instead of master branch

Question

How can I git clone the PR which haven't been merged by the author in github? Tried to fork a repo but the pr is gone.

Yes, that's why I used `upstream`. `upstream` is the traditional name of the remote for the original repo of your fork. — JB Nizet, Apr 05 '19 at 11:04
@CharlesJr., do you have the original repo set up as a remote? See https://stackoverflow.com/q/7244321/354577 — ChrisGPT was on strike, Apr 05 '19 at 11:38
Possible duplicate of [How to pull a pull request quickly locally](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6389127/how-to-pull-a-pull-request-quickly-locally) — phd, Apr 05 '19 at 14:21
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgithub%5D+pull+request+locally — phd, Apr 05 '19 at 14:21

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '19 at 00:28

clone then fetch that PR to a local branch. For example:

git clone https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin
git fetch origin pull/2932/head:pr2932
git checkout pr2392

Note:

replace https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin with your source repo
replace 2932 with your source Pull Request number
replace pr2932 with your desired branch name

I was looking for a single command to clone a single branch of a PR, but it seems not exist (please let me if somebody know that trick).

padawin · Answer 2 · 2019-04-05T11:05:34.033

By "clone the PR", I assume you mean: "having my local clone of the project at the state of a given PR".

You clone a repository, not a Pull Request. Git itself has no notion of Pull Request. However, the Pull Request is probably associated with a branch, so you can do:

git clone url/of/your/repo destinationDirectory
cd destinationDirectory
git checkout branchOfThePR

If you already have a clone, then, as @JB Nizet said, you need to fetch the new branches:

git fetch remoteName

Then you can check the branch out:

git checkout branchOfThePR

git clone pull request instead of master branch

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