Fork github desktop update#

Fork github desktop update#

This was a quick walkthrough on how you can update a fork and sync it to the latest state of the original repository. Now your fork is up to date with the original repo.

Provide the pull request with a title and a body, and then create the pull request: Create a pull request.įinally, on the pull request that got created, scroll to the bottom and merge the pull request: Merge the pull request.Īnd that’s it. You can merge those in by creating a pull request: After comparing the branches, create a pull request. Once you switch the bases, you’ll be able to open a pull request to merge in the changes from the original branch into your own. You can achieve this, by hitting the “switching the base” option: This is not what you want, you want the inverse. Start by clicking the pull request button.įrom there, GitHub by default takes you to a view of opening a PR on the original repo to merge in your changes. Next to that mention, there is an option to open a pull request. You should see a mention that this branch is behind the original branch. I was following a guide that showed creating a Pull Request against my own fork and pulling changes from upstream in order to bring my fork up to date. This is feasible with GitHub Desktop since version 1.0.7 considering the following: If the current branch does not have any commits ahead upstream (the original repo of the fork), the new commits can be pulled without creating a new merge commit. To start, open the forked repo in Github. Once you are logged in to GitHub, click on the Fork button. Step 2: Run the following command in your terminal to see the current configured remote repository in your fork: git remote -v. This is easy to do, but you have to know which buttons to push. Furthermore, GitHub released a GitHub Desktop GUI for Windows (graphical. Following are the steps to Sync your fork with the master: Step 1: Open your command line or terminal in git bash.

I recently needed to sync a GitHub repo I forked to the latest status of the original fork.