Github : Fork with pull requests

Question

I am working on this code : https://github.com/samvermette/SVPullToRefresh

This have many pull request pending. But due to some reason Author is not able to accept.

So I decide to Fork project and accept some of the request which can improve code.

But when I fork project I don't get all that Pull request in Forked copy.

Is there any way to get that all pull request in my forked copy?

I Get this question which is very similar : Fork a Pull request, on Github

But I am not able to know how to do it. I am not able to find how to write "unit tests".

I get some answer which require to get local copy on my computer and than work with some git commands. But I think there should some way to do it on web interface only. Tell me if I am getting wrong.

Answer 1

You won't be to see the PR from the original "upstream" repo in your fork, but you still can import them in your local clone:

git remote add upstream /url/of/original/repo
git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/upstream/pr/*"

(The pull/ID branch naming convention is mentioned in the GitHub help page "Modifying an inactive pull request locally")

That way, you can merge any upstream/pr/<ID> branch you want in your local repo.