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Comment by fcarraldo | Hacker News Reader

Hub is essential for anyone who works with GitHub repositories, IMO.

It gives you, if nothing else, an important shortcut: `hub checkout github.com/repo/pulls/1234` automatically adds a remote, fetches, and checks out the branch of a given pull request. Great for local testing/validation, when needed.

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You can do this fairly easily with a git alias without needing to be locked into a GitHub-only client:

    [alias]
    pr = !"pr() { git fetch origin pull/$1/head:pr-$1; }; pr"

And then do `git pr 1234 ; git checkout pr-1234`. Feel free to add `git checkout` to the alias if you prefer.

I recently learned that you can do

  git fetch origin pull/⟨PR id⟩/head:pr-⟨PR id⟩ && git checkout pr-⟨PR id⟩

(but hub is nicer of course)

Or, simpler:

    hub pr checkout 1234

I might be missing something, but can’t you just `git checkout -b <feature-branch-name>`?

Not if the branch is on a fork.

Ah gotcha, then that is a pretty handy shortcut.

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