Question

I am maintaining a fork of a git repo on github. I have two remotes: origin which points to the original location and fork which points to my github repo.

I pushed to github following their help with git push -u fork master. It worked but it mentioned something about modifying a remote. How do I pull from the origin and push to github ?

Answer 1

There are ways to preset these kinds of things, but I’d probably just stick with the classic:

git pull origin master ;# to pull 'master' from origin
git push fork master ;# to push 'master' to fork

I don’t particularly like setting upstream branches, but that’s just because I’m cantankerous and like explicit ref specification. I also skip git pull entirely in favor of git fetch and git merge and those kids had best get off my lawn.