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Comment: Describe how to work on someone's PR
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 which will put your local changes on top of ours. Pushing to your fork will update the pull request.
 
 
+=== Working with someone else's pull request through its ID ===
+
+This section describes how to work on a PR without the need to clone or pull from the PR author's repository. 
+
+Check out - according to [https://help.github.com/articles/checking-out-pull-requests-locally/ GitHub's help] - the pull request {{{#ID}}} to work on as a local branch {{{BRANCHNAME}}}:
+{{{
+git fetch origin pull/ID/head:BRANCHNAME
+git checkout BRANCHNAME
+}}}
+then work an it as needed, commit and finally decide where to push the changes made, e.g. by
+{{{
+git fetch upstream master
+git checkout master
+git merge BRANCHNAME
+git push upstream master
+}}}
 
 
 
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 - [https://git-scm.com/doc Git Documentation]
 - [https://help.github.com GitHub Help]
+- [https://help.github.com/articles/checking-out-pull-requests-locally/ Checking out GitHub pull requests]
 - [https://git-scm.com/documentation/external-links Git's list of external resources]
 - [https://help.github.com/articles/good-resources-for-learning-git-and-github GitHub's list of external resources]
 - [https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Git/Configuration “Infrastructure/Git/Configuration”] at the KDE Community Wiki
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