What is the correct git config for working with GitHub pull requests?

Question

I\'m aware of How can I check out a GitHub pull request?

While adding fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to .git/config does al

Answer 1

One correct way is with hub! :)

$ brew install hub
$ hub checkout https://github.com/github/hub/pull/123

...

$ hub pull
Already up-to-date.

It has extra utilities for working with Github pull requests, such as

hub pull-request