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I'm not quite sure I understand. Why would you checkout a PR over the pushed remote branch that the PR references?

e.g. I push feature/foo to origin and open a pull request base develop. Why would one not just pull down feature/foo?

I had the same question, but then I realized where this tip is useful: for open-source projects where the PR came from someone else's fork. With this tip, you don't have to add the forked remote in order to pull it.

'doh! Thanks!

Also, if you delete the original branch that the PR refers to, the PR branch still has all of the commits.

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