Maybe this pull request is being censored/shadowbanned right now. Opening the page takes tens of seconds and returns "Unicorn! This page is taking too long to load. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists.". However, PR #8142 is indeed listed in the list of open PRs at https://github.com/github/dmca/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr .

This just loaded fine for me in Firefox. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt for this one, after all this PR contains 10k commits and 120 comments, and then quite a lot of approvals.

I saw the unicorn when using firefox, but when I switched to chromium, the PR opened fine

if you have the dmca repo on your computer, you can checkout this PR via git fetch upstream pull/8142/head:pr-8142&&git checkout pr-8142

Should work even if they blackhole the pr.

There’s no need to create that pr-8142 branch, which will otherwise hang around indefinitely which is most commonly not what you want:

  git fetch upstream pull/8142/head
  git checkout FETCH_HEAD

Isn't it more like the following?:

  git clone https://github.com/github/dmca.git
  git fetch origin pull/8142/head
  git checkout FETCH_HEAD

I was just modifying the parent comment, which assumes an existing repository.

Since we’re fiddling with things in this way, if you were just trying to get a copy of the contents, this’ll do that about most efficiently:

  git init
  git fetch --depth=1 https://github.com/github/dmca pull/8142/head
  git checkout FETCH_HEAD

(I don’t think you can git-clone an arbitrary ref, only a branch.)