Question

I’m new to Github, and I can’t seem to do something that I think should be simple.

I have a personal remote repository, and a forked over a project into it. (Both from GitHub) From there I created a local copy using the clone, and I’ve been commiting and fetching from that repository. Other people working on the same project have been commiting and fetching from a shared repository.

I would like to synchronize my remote repository from the shared one, so that I have the latest copy of the project from the shared repository in my personal one. How do you do this? I tried forking it again but that doesn’t work.

Thank you,

Answer 1

Answer based on the GitHub help topic Fork A Repo.

First you need to set up a remote for the forked repository:

$ git remote add upstream git://github.com/PathToThe/ProjectYouForkedFrom.git

Then you need to pull in the upstream changes:

$ git fetch upstream
$ git merge upstream/master