Working With Forks

A reference document for myself so I don’t have to Google the same things every time.

Syncing Your Fork

# Add a new remote upstream repository
git remote add upstream https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git

# Sync your fork
git fetch upstream
git checkout main
git merge upstream/main

# Sync your fork's remote repository
git push

Sources:

How to Sync Your Fork with the Original Git Repository

Working With Somebody Else’s Branch In Their Fork of the Same Repository

Assuming you already have cloned your own fork of the repository:

git remote add other https://github.com/OTHER_FORK_OWNER/OTHER_FORK_REPOSITORY.git

git fetch other

# Checkout new branch to work on
git checkout -b add-other-changes

# Pull their branch 
git pull other other-fork-branch

Once you’ve made changes and want to push to your remote:

git push origin HEAD

If you want to list the remotes you have added for the repository, run:

git remote -v

Sources:

How do you work with someone else’s fork?

Written on April 20, 2023