How to sync a Master branch from a Fork

Need to sync your forked branch with the original master branch. Read on to learn how to do this.

Let's say you forked a repo 2 weeks back and you made some changes and even a pull request. Now, you're getting back into your forked branch and your forked branch is not synced with the original repo master branch.

Simple enough, you can do the following:

$ git fetch upstream

Wu Oh! Did you get an error? Something like:

fatal: 'upstream' does not appear to be a git repository

No worries! That means that you need to tell your repo where to fetch this remote upstream. You can do this with the following:

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager

make sure to add the original github repo URL for your project

Now, you can confirm that you have the upstream repo specified by running:

$ git remote -v
origin      https://github.com/tnylea/voyager.git (fetch)
origin      https://github.com/tnylea/voyager.git (push)
upstream    https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager (fetch)
upstream    https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager (push)

You should only need to add the upstream once from here on out you will be able to sync your forked branch by doing the following:

Our Amazing Sponsors