Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git
Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:
Example: You have a branch refactor that is quite different from master. You can't merge all of the
commits, or even every hunk in any single commit or master will break, but you have made a lot of
improvements there that you would like to bring over to master.
Note: This will not preserve the original change authors. Only use if necessary, or if you don't mind losing that information, or if you are only merging your own work.
On master:
> git co -b temp