If I fork a project on Github, and that project gets updated, how can I make my fork get updated as the main project is updated?
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If I fork a project on Github, and that project gets updated, how can I make my fork get updated as the main project is updated?
Fetch the changes from the original project, merge them into your project, and push back to your Github repository.
It is not a good idea to automate this, generally. (The upstream changes may result in a merge conflict or worse: a “clean merge” that breaks everything.)