<div dir="ltr">FWIW, I add a line to my repo config. The second line (or first fetch) below:<div><div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">[remote "upstream"]</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>url = <a href="https://github.com/juju/juju">https://github.com/juju/juju</a></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/upstream/pr/*</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/*</font></div></div><div><br></div></div><div>`<font face="monospace, monospace">git fetch</font>` subsequently fetches all PRs. and checking one out becomes:<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">git co pr/5876</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Branch pr/5876 set up to track remote ref refs/pull/5876/head.</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Switched to a new branch 'pr/5876'</font></div></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The order of fetches in the config is important, from more specific (</font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">refs/remotes/upstream/pr/*) </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to less specific (</span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">refs/remotes/upstream/*). </span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Inverting them will cause clobber induced churn when fetching, IIRC.  </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Chris MacNaughton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.macnaughton@canonical.com" target="_blank">chris.macnaughton@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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          <div>That is interesting, I use the same configuration: origin
            is me, upstream is the parent fork. I didn't realize this
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    According to Github, this is the normal, expected practice:
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