Commit 1f203f84 authored by Aymeric Augustin's avatar Aymeric Augustin
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Explained an alternative way to fetch a branch. 

This avoids adding each contributor as a remote.

Thanks Fruneau for the report.
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docs/internals/contributing/committing-code.txt

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@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ checkout the branch and work from there:: 
    git remote add <contributor> https://github.com/<contributor>/django.git

    git checkout pull_xxxxx <contributor> <contributor's pull request branch>



Yet another alternative is to fetch the branch without adding the

contributor's repository as a remote::



    git fetch https://github.com/<contributor>/django.git

    git checkout -b pull_xxxxx FETCH_HEAD



At this point, you can work on the code and continue as above.



GitHub provides a one-click merge functionality for pull requests. This should