GitHub: How to add open pull requests to local repo?

Question

I\'m using the NSDate-Extensions plugin in my iOS Xcode project. The master repo has some errors which seems to be fixed in two Pull Requests:

• https://github.com/e

Answer 1

You should add the forks that offered the pull requests, and add them as a remote:

• Find the person contributing the link (normally just click the sha1 hash)

• Do something like:

  git remote add githubuser theirgithubfork.git

Then you can easily pull down their changes:

• git fetch githubuser

Easily take individual commits with"

• git cherry-pick thesha1fromthepullrequest

For a complete example, imagine this pull request (6bbbcc5) from RogerE on the Ruby Capistrano project.

$ git clone git@github.com:capistrano/capistrano.git
$ cd capistrano
$ git remote add RogerE https://github.com/RogerE/capistrano.git
$ git fetch RogerE
$ git cherry-pick 6bbbcc5