With GitHub for Windows, you can "publish" a branch, and then "sync" that branch to GitHub.
Is the sync basically a git pull
and git push
? Or is there more to it? If I wanted to do the exact same steps as "sync" from the command line, what should I do?
(It's not Open Source, or I'd just read that.)
git-sync is used for syncing a personal fork with the upstream repository the personal fork was created from. Syncing here means updating all the branches in the personal fork that are also present in the upstream repository.
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Sync does git pull --rebase
and then if there are local changes, it does git push
.
From here: http://haacked.com/archive/2012/05/21/introducing-github-for-windows.aspx#87318
Since the above answer was more than two years ago, an updated answer to this question is: due to some bugs with rebase, the "sync" button does not do git pull --rebase
anymore. Instead, it does git pull
which will do merge if there are conflicts, according to this release notes (see release 1.3.0).
The link above is not available at this time. Here is the new release notes.
"Sync" would be any actions necessary to have your local branch match your remote branch. If your local branch had commits that your remote branch didn't, then "sync" would push your branch. If the remote branch was ahead of your local branch, then "sync" would pull first (specifically, git pull --rebase
, as was explained by Phil Haack). "Sync" is just a shortcut to getting the local and remote to mirror each other.
From the GitHub site:
The sync button turns the complex workflow of pulling and pushing into a single operation. It notifies you when there are new changes to pull down and lets you quickly share local changes.
To add to @ethanyang's answer,
According to the alias configured in the gitconfig,
[alias]
...
sync = !git pull && git push
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