I forked a project, made changes, and created a pull request which was accepted. New commits were later added to the repository. How do I get those commits into my fork?
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Best Answer
In your local clone of your forked repository, you can add the original GitHub repository as a "remote". ("Remotes" are like nicknames for the URLs of repositories -
origin
is one, for example.) Then you can fetch all the branches from that upstream repository, and rebase your work to continue working on the upstream version. In terms of commands that might look like:If you don't want to rewrite the history of your master branch, (for example because other people may have cloned it) then you should replace the last command with
git merge upstream/master
. However, for making further pull requests that are as clean as possible, it's probably better to rebase.If you've rebased your branch onto
upstream/master
you may need to force the push in order to push it to your own forked repository on GitHub. You'd do that with:You only need to use the
-f
the first time after you've rebased.