Now you can check out a particular merge request from any repository and any remote, e.g. to check out a merge request number 5 as shown in GitLab from the `upstream` remote, do:
```
$ git mr upstream 5
```
This will fetch the merge request into a local `mr-upstream-5` branch and check it out.
### By modifying `.git/config` for a given repository
Locate the section for your GitLab remote in the `.git/config` file. It looks like this:
```
[remote "origin"]
url = https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
```
Now add the line `fetch = +refs/merge-requests/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/merge-requests/*` to this section.