How to keep the GIT repos in sync

Question

I don’t grasp GIT yet. So I have a basic question:

I want to keep one of the repos that I am using (I don’t own it, I cloned it) in sync with my local copy.

How do I do that?

I am aware of git fetch/pull but when I do run that in the same folder where I executed git clone http://.....git I get the following error

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Thanks, mE

Answer 1

git fetch will retrieve all changes from the remote.

git pull will merge those changes from the remote into your local copy (this accomplishes two commands in one step. fetch & merge

If you have commit access to the remote repository, git push will push your local changes to the origin that you cloned from.