To sync your forked repo with the parent or central repo on GitHub you: Create a pull request on GitHub.com to update your fork of the repository from the original repository, and. Run the git pull command in the terminal to update your local clone.
Forks allows you have to have a repository of a project that you do not own on your GitHub account so that you can make some changes without affecting the original repository. Once the changes on your forked repository are validated, you can submit these changes as contributions to the original project.
Syncing a fork branch from the web UI On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the forked repository that you want to sync with the upstream repository. Select the Fetch upstream drop-down. Review the details about the commits from the upstream repository, then click Fetch and merge.
First, set up the parent repo:
upstream
or master
) and the URL / path to the parent repo.Now, to update:
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