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Syncing Forks Without Merge Commits II: CLI

Posted on by davidaaronyoung | Leave a Comment on Syncing Forks Without Merge Commits II: CLI 


# Add an upstream remote for the repo that you just forked from

git remote add upstream https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git


# Fetch the branch info

git fetch upstream


# Check out the local branch you'd like to sync up

# Set it to track against the local master so we can push/pull with shorthand

git checkout master --set-upstream=origin/master


# merge in the changes from the upstream repo

# at this point you should fast-forward and be in sync with the remote branch

git merge upstream/master


# push the local sync up to your repo

# since we set this to track origin/master already there is no need to specify

git push

Docs:
– Configuring A Remote For A Fork
– Syncing A Fork

Syncing Forks Without Merge Commits

Posted on by davidaaronyoung | Leave a Comment on Syncing Forks Without Merge Commits

I was looking for a quick way to sync a forked GitHub repository that had upstream changes without using their interface to create a pull request (doing so would result in a merge commit showing up in the list of commits when I submit another pull request).

Thats when I found Upriver.

Pretty straightforward:

  • Give it authorization to use your GitHub account.
  • Tell it which branches to sync
  • Click Pull

Thanks for the cool tool @bardiharborow