Checkout Azure DevOps Pull Requests locally

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Fetch and checkout one specific pull request

To identify one particular pull request, find the pull request number on the Azure DevOps site:

Then fetch and checkout the pull request in a local branch named pull/137

git fetch origin pull/137/merge:pull/137
git checkout pull/137

Always fetch all pull requests for one repository

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/merge:refs/remotes/origin/pull/* to your local .git/config file. It looks like this:

git config --add remote.origin.fetch "+refs/pull/*/merge:refs/remotes/origin/pull/*"

Your local .git/config file looks now like this:

[remote "origin"]
	url = ssh://my-vsts@my-vsts.visualstudio.com:22/DefaultCollection/Project-Name/_git/Repo-Name
	fetch = +refs/pull/*/merge:refs/remotes/origin/pull/*
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

Now fetch all the pull requests:

$ git fetch origin
From ssh://my-vsts@my-vsts.visualstudio.com:22/DefaultCollection/Project-Name/_git/Repo-Name
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1000/merge -> origin/pull/1000
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1002/merge -> origin/pull/1002
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/1004/merge -> origin/pull/1004
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/137/merge -> origin/pull/137

to checkout a pull request into a local branch named pull/137 use:

$ git checkout pull/137
Branch pull/137 set up to track remote branch pull/137 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'pull/137'

Always fetch all pull requests for all repositories

git config --global --add remote.origin.fetch "+refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*"

References

• See the discussion at https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247 for more insights

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Exactly what I needed thank you!