How to synchronize fork with original GitHub project?

Question

I created the fork of some GitHub project. Then I created new branch and did a patch inside of that branch. I sent the pull request to author and he applied my patch and added some commits later. How can I synchronize my fork on GitHub with original project now? Am I to delete my fork on GitHub and create new fork for each my patch each time?

Answer 1

You don't need to refork again. Just add a remote (say, upstream) and fetch upstream to update your cloned repository.

$ git remote add upstream <original-repo-url>
$ git fetch upstream                 # update local with upstream

$ git diff HEAD..upstream/master     # see diffs between local and upstream/master (if there is no diff then both are in sync)

$ git pull upstream master           # pull upstream's master into local branch
$ git push origin HEAD               # push to your forked repo's remote branch