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| | It's possible to update a forked git repository using the Terminal or one of the many good GUIs for git, but did you know Github gives you a way to update a fork directly in its web interface?
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| | This is something I often do but rarely remember the steps for. This post is intended to serve as a reminder for me and anyone else having the same question: how to add an upstream remote git repository. Start by forking the repository you are contributing to and cloning that repository to your local file system. In this example, we will use the Elasticsearch repository and assume you have cloned it locally.
| | jinyuz.dev
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| | There was a pull request on GitHub and it contains a feature I wanted to test. I didn't know how to test it locally. Should I just copy the changes to my local since the changes weren't that big? But what if it was? Luckily, I found some answers by googling and decided to write it up for future reference. Git provides a command for it and here is the sample syntax
| | javier.io
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| how to keep your Git-Fork up to date