By design, forking a project creates a separate repo that is not updated when the original repo changes. However, git makes it pretty easy to update manually.
You need the help of a 3rd repository (your local copy suffices). There are 3 repos:
- "Upstream": The upstream project's repository on Github.
- "Origin": Your fork's repository on Github
- "Local": Your local repository on your computer. I will assume you created it by cloning Fork using
git clone git@github.com:your-username/projectname.git, and that everyone is using branchmaster.
Assuming currently "Origin" and "Local" are in the same state, and "Upstream" is ahead by 1 or more commits (the merge and any subsequent changes).
First add the upstream project as a Git remote:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/upstream-username/projectname.git Then pull (meaning fetch and then merge automatically) the changes from the remote's master branch into your local repository's current (master) branch:
git pull upstream master Now your local repository is in sync with upstream. Finally, push your local repo to your Github fork:
git push origin master Now everything is in sync.