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I've forked a repository on GitHub and have a quite an extensive commit/pull/push history, which I need to keep.
The owner of the main repository has created some new branches. How can I clone these branches into my forked copy, without deleting the fork and cloning from scratch?
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Note that after deleting the repository, the action cannot be undone. Also note that if you are deleting a forked repository, deleting it will only remove it (including any changes you have made to it) from your own GitHub - you won't accidentally delete the original project (phew).
You are unable to fork a repo twice on Github (as of late 2021) but if you want to build on the same repo multiple times, you can use the "Import Repository" option and feed it the URL used to clone.
Deleting a repository will permanently delete release attachments and team permissions. This action cannot be undone. Deleting a private repository will delete all forks of the repository.
You'll want to add the other repository as a remote for your own one.
Got to where you've got your repository on your computer and open git Bash and do:
git remote add upstream <address of the repository you cloned from>
Then whenever you need to update your fork just do:
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/master
That will reapply whatever changes are on your current branch on top of any changes from the other repository. Note to make things easier I usually leave the master branch on my repository untouched and only work in branches. Then whenever I need to update I just rebase master and rebase my other branches on top of that.
Don't know about getting other branches for upstream though but this answer may be of help: How do I check out a remote Git branch?
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