Sync a fork of a repository to keep it up-to-date with the upstream repository.
Before you can sync your fork with an upstream repository, you must configure a remote that points to the upstream repository in Git.
1, Open Git Bash.
2, Change the current working directory to your local project.
3, Fetch the branches and their respective commits from the
upstream repository. Commits to master will
be stored in a local
branch, upstream/master.
4, Check out your fork’s
local master branch.
5, Merge the changes
from upstream/master into your
local master branch. This brings your
fork’s master branch into sync with
the upstream repository, without losing your local
changes.
If your local branch didn’t have any unique commits, Git will instead perform a “fast-forward”:
