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# Collaborate
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## Fetch another contributor's branch
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What happens when you would like to collaborate with another contributor and
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they have work-in-progress on their own fork of Zulip? No problem! Just add
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their fork as a remote and pull their changes.
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```
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$ git remote add <username> https://github.com/<username>/zulip.git
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$ git fetch <username>
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```
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Now you can checkout their branch just like you would any other. You can name
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the branch anything you want, but using both the username and branch name will
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help you keep things organized.
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```
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$ git checkout -b <username>/<branchname>
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```
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You can choose to rename the branch if you prefer:
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```
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git checkout -b <custombranchname> <username>/<branchname>
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```
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## Checkout a pull request locally
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Just as you can checkout any user's branch locally, you can also checkout any
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pull request locally. GitHub provides a special syntax
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([details][github-help-co-pr-locally]) for this since pull requests are
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specific to GitHub rather than Git.
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First, fetch and create a branch for the pull request, replacing *ID* and
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*BRANCHNAME* with the ID of the pull request and your desired branch name:
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```
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$ git fetch upstream pull/ID/head:BRANCHNAME
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```
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Now switch to the branch:
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```
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$ git checkout BRANCHNAME
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```
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Now you work on this branch as you would any other.
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Note: you can use the scripts provided in the tools/ directory to fetch pull
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requests. You can read more about what they do [here][tools-PR].
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```
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tools/fetch-rebase-pull-request <PR-number>
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tools/fetch-pull-request <PR-number>
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```
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[github-help-co-pr-locally]: https://help.github.com/articles/checking-out-pull-requests-locally/
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[tools-PR]: ../git/zulip-tools.html#fetch-a-pull-request-and-rebase
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