github pull requests from the command line without adding remotes for everybody's private branches

.gitconfig

# this works in repo/.git/config as well as just putting it in ~/.gitconfig
# and having it work magically for all repos
[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/pull/*

log_of_so_much_happiness.txt

fenchurch:~/devel/github.com/efibootmgr$ git fetch
From github.com:vathpela/efibootmgr
 * [new ref]         refs/pull/8/head -> refs/pull/8
fenchurch:~/devel/github.com/efibootmgr$ git show pull/8
commit 65063c80e377a60c689c4efc38975f97788c70e8
Author: groxxda <ried@mytum.de>
Date:   Thu Jul 31 18:37:37 2014 +0200

    Update efibootmgr.c
    
    Compare should respect the size of the data it compares.

diff --git a/src/efibootmgr/efibootmgr.c b/src/efibootmgr/efibootmgr.c
index ba5f54f..6b03c84 100644
--- a/src/efibootmgr/efibootmgr.c
+++ b/src/efibootmgr/efibootmgr.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static int
 compare(const void *a, const void *b)
 {
        int rc = -1;
-       uint32_t n1, n2;
+       uint16_t n1, n2;
        memcpy(&n1, a, sizeof(n1));
        memcpy(&n2, b, sizeof(n2));
        if (n1 < n2) rc = -1;

(Worth noting that e.g. "git am pull/8" or adding a pick line for pull/8 in "git rebase -i HEAD~10" should work as well.)