display PRs from upstream repository in your fork

I am the maintainer of Zebobo5/Vlc.DotNet. I mostly work on my fork, and make PR to integrate changes to the main repository.

To avoid pushing inadvertently bad code into Zebobo5’s project, I cloned my fork (which is origin), and added an upstream remote to track changes to the main project (git pull upstream develop)

I’ve always done everything from CLI, but wanted to give GitHub desktop a try, to see if it could improve my workflow. It seems that GitHub desktop doesn’t understand this workflow, and doesn’t let me checkout the PR from the main project.

My question is: Is there a way to checkout a specific PR from the main project while on a fork?

Ideas:

• Show PR from this project + from the original fork in a separate category
• Show PR from all remotes configured

[ampinsk]

Based on what we decided in #9170, we’re going to default to showing the pull requests from the parent repository, but with an indicator (in the form of a list header) to make that explicit.

[jeremyVignelles]

That would be an alternative but I find it unpractical for a few reasons :

• A mistake has been made a long time ago : vlc has been checked in git, so the repo is quite heavy, I’d need to shallow clone
• Switching between repo would be a source of mistakes
• Each sample in this repo installs a copy of vlc from NuGet, which represents a lot of space (my repo folder is currently 4.06GB ), so doubling would be a waste of space.

I don’t thinks this would be a viable solution for large repos like dotnet/coreclr