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Git: How to keep your fork updated with remote repository

Raunak Ramakrishnan on November 09, 2018

This is useful when you have forked a repository (repo), cloned it to your local machine and want to keep it in sync with the original repo. ...
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Wei Ji

Nice article! Always handy to have a guide like this when the time comes :) There's also a Github Probot App called Pull that helps to automatically keep your forks up to date on Github itself. I've installed it recently on my forked repos and it removes the manual fetching!

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Raunak Ramakrishnan • Edited

Thanks! Was not aware of this before. This will reduce the manual work needed to keep them up-to-date.

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Orim Dominic Adah

This just saved me right now!