Git merge from someone else’s fork

Add their github fork repo as a remote to a clone of your own repo:

git remote add other-guys-repo <url to other guys repo>

Get their changes:

git fetch other-guys-repo

Checkout the branch where you want to merge:

git checkout my_new_branch

Merge their changes in (assuming they did their work on the master branch):

git merge other-guys-repo/master

Resolve conflicts, commit the resolutions and voila.

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