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 }}} If the contribution consists of a separate branch off master for just this pull request, then you can merge that remote branch with: {{{ git merge reponame/branchname }}} In case you want to only pick some commits of the contribution you can check the commit you want to get at the !GitHub pull request page and simply do: {{{ git cherry-pick -s sha1_commit }}} For more information on cherry-pick options see UsingGit#Usefulgitcommands Notice that the latter will not automatically close the pull request.