Pull any PR locally for deeper review:
gh pr checkout 247 # GitHub CLI, easiest
# or via Git:
git fetch origin pull/247/head:pr-247
git switch pr-247
Now you can:
- Run the tests locally.
- Open the code in your IDE with full tooling.
- Use
git diff main to see the full delta.
- Use
git log main.. to read commit-by-commit.
- Try the feature manually — does it actually work?
Reviewers who only read diffs miss runtime bugs. Pulling locally catches things like "this changes the API but doesn't update the consumer two files over" — the kind of thing a diff-only review never sees.
Clean up after:
git switch main
git branch -D pr-247