You have been assigned a GitHub pull request to cherry-pick or merge the changes do the following: git remote add reponame URL Like so: {{{ git remote add knowledgejunkie https://github.com/knowledgejunkie/mythtv.git }}} Then fetch the content: {{{ git fetch reponame }}} Using the GitHub pull request page, check the commit you want to get and simply do: {{{ git cherry-pick -s sha1_commit }}} An alternative way is using the GitHub instructions: https://help.github.com/articles/merging-a-pull-request#merging-locally