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Currently when using the copy button beside a branch name on a pull request from a forked repo, you end up copying something like user:branch. This makes it difficult to checkout the branch locally since you have to manually strip the user: from the string. It would be great if refined github did that for you!
Example URL:
https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple/pull/606
posted by fregante over 5 years ago 
Thanks for the suggestion, IMO that's a bit heavy handed to fix this so I think I'll write my own checkout wrapper to handle this
Out of curiosity, can you show me how you check out a PR step by step? For me it's:
- Copy the page's URL
- Press <kbd>h</kbd> <kbd>ā</kbd> in the terminal (usually autocompletes to
hub checkout (pbpaste))
- Press <kbd>enter</kbd>
This works with any PR, regardless of the PR's origin (mine? previously checked out?)
If I'm already on GitHub Desktop, in 3 clicks:
- Open the branch list
- Switch to PR list if it isn't already
- Select the PR from the list
Both of these pull and checkout the branch in one go.
For me it's:
- Click the branch copy
- Type g co cmd v
- Enter
This doesn't support all the cases yours does but it works for my workflow. I'm just not using hub there
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