Scenario: you're assigned to review a pull request. It may have side-effects, so you want to build it locally to see it run for yourself. How do you do that?

Here's what I do:

• From my local git client I run git remote add <user> <git-url>. This creates a new remote (eg "origin" or "upstream") corresponding to the PR author's fork.
• I create branch off of whatever the PR is merging into, usually "master".
• I pull in the changes from the remote branch, git pull <user> <branch> where branch corresponds to whatever is shown in the PR.

Now my client should be synced to the contents of the PR and we're off.

I don't like that workflow. Can I borrow yours? What do other people do in this scenario?

I've heard about appending .patch to the PR URLs to get a patch file, but not quite sure how to streamline that. Help!