How do I use the "Copy branch name" button?

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Here is a randomly selected PR: #292 - Some new plants including badland plants. - Exile - Codeberg.org

When I press the “Copy branch name” button I get:
lord_of_the_dumpster/Exile:badland-plants

How do I use that?

It seems like it would be much better if I got:
git fetch hxxps://codeberg.org/lord_of_the_dumpster/Exile.git badland-plants
(I had to replace the t’s with x’s because the forum software was messing it up.)

That would be useful to fetch and test a PR.

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This might help.

You could also suggest other useful commands (if enough people like)

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Thank you. That is good to know.

That info does not appear on the PRs of some repos for some reason. Different repo settings I guess. I will have to do some research. Here is an example of a PR on Codeberg with no git command help: https://codeberg.org/mineclonia/mineclonia/pulls/158

But that doesn’t answer my question about the use of the “Copy branch name” button.

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The “copy branch name” : it’s related to Source branch reference should probably be `user/repo` · Issue #20408 · go-gitea/gitea · GitHub , no conclusion yet.

There are different use cases for it.

Copy the user/repo:banch pattern to construct compare URLs manually.

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You’re saying it’s used for git diff? That would explain it.

Thanks for making that PR that makes the command line instructions show up even if there are merge conflicts.

I just wish that info showed up at the top not the bottom.