Question

If userA and I both fork a project from userB. Then userA creates a commit in their master fork and has not decided to make a pull request to userB master. How do I add their commit (userA) to my dev branch (not my master) in my fork?

Answer 1

You can actually do this with one command. For example:

git pull https://github.com/userA/repo.git master

This will merge userA’s master branch into your current branch (use git checkout dev on your own repository first).

If you find yourself doing this frequently, you can add a remote to your local repository that allows you to refer to userA’s repository with a single name. For example:

git remote add userA https://github.com/userA/repo.git
git pull userA master