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Development Tools GitHub Basics Get Involved in Open Source Creating Your Own Fork of an Open-Source Repository

Posted by Yuval Blass
Yuval Blass
18,134 Points

What happens if we forked a repo and at the same time the main project repo has updated?

Hi everyone,
As I wrote in the title, what happens in this situation? I understand that when we have full access to the repo, we can fetch and pull the changes, but when we forked our repo we out-of-date...
It does not make sense, and I probably miss something so thanks in advanced for your help!

3 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

There are ways to do that with git, you just have to do so manually, but there are some commands to make it easy: https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/

Yuval Blass
Yuval Blass
18,134 Points
Yuval Blass
Yuval Blass
18,134 Points

Thanks Kevin

Chris Komaroff
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Chris Komaroff
Courses Plus Student 14,198 Points
Chris Komaroff
Chris Komaroff
Courses Plus Student 14,198 Points

I was wondering about that! GitHub fork can rapidly become out-of-date. Thanks, Kevin, and remember to "git remote add upstream <url>" as described in the other link doc for this to work.