How to fetch/clone an unmerged pull request

[Fabian Mendez]

How do I fetch a pull request in Bitbucket?

In github it's possible to do this with:

git fetch origin pull/1/head

Based on this I tried with:

git fetch origin pull-requests/1/head

But it says:

fatal: Couldn't find remote ref pull-requests/4/head

Thanks in advance!

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

If you want to check out the code that is part of the pull request, all you have to do is

git checkout -t origin/<source branch>

This will create a local copy of the source branch. Note that you may have to do a git fetch first if you do not see the branch when you do git branch -r 

[Fabian Mendez]

The thing is, the code is not from a branch of the main repo it's from a fork

[Mikael Sandberg]

Okay, in that case you need to know the fork URL and you can then use git fetch <forked_repo_url> <branch> to fetch it. Check out How to locally fetch and checkout a pull request

[Fabian Mendez]

OK thanks, it works

But would be great to have a github-like reference to the pull requests

[Fabian Mendez]

Well, There is another gotcha with this solution, if the project/repository is private, whenever someone fork it it will be private too and if I try to fetch a branch from a private repo of another user I get a 'remote: Unauthorized' error

[Fabian Mendez]

To finally work with this the user has to explicitly give permissions to those who want to clone/fetch a PR