Update the fork Github

Question

I have forked a remote repo and it has 3 branches

But the team added new branches to the remote. And the current branches are

but my fork has only 3 branches. How should I update my fork to contain all the branches (including newly added branches) present in remote repo.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '13 at 07:12

Add the original repo as a second remote to your local repo:

git remote add parentrepo <url>

Fetch all branches from it:

git fetch parentrepo

Given what you have said, git branch -a should give (assuming you have origin as the alias for your fork as it is by default when you clone)

* master
origin/master
origin/a
origin/b
parentrepo/a
parentrepo/b
parentrepo/c
parentrepo/d
parentrepo/e

You can branch any remote branch from parentrepo locally as you would for origin, and/or push them directly to origin.

Can we do this from web interface of github at this point of time ? — Vasif, Aug 17 '16 at 22:19

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

2

Now, there are two steps involved. Fetching newly added branches from remote repository and pushing those branches to your fork.

To fetch, newly added branches from remote repository say original, do

1. git remote add original {url_to_remote}
2. git fetch original

Now, we have pulled remote branches on our local repo. Next we want to send these branches to our fork.

1. git push -u origin {branch_name} // Origin is your fork

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

Community

answered Apr 01 '13 at 08:06

Sachin Jain

2

You edited the OP's question, changing the meaning. I doubt his question is how to push branches, he's asking how to push recently added branches from a parent project back into his own fork's remote. – Sébastien Dawans Apr 01 '13 at 09:14
Thanks @Sebastian..Kind enough to tell me. I have updated the question once again. Does it make sense now ? – Sachin Jain Apr 01 '13 at 10:46
hai @blunderboy am edited the question with the correct meaning – Jordy S Chemparathy Apr 01 '13 at 11:15

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 15:11

1

Just to cover yourself when the team removes remote branches and you don't have their updates, I would do 2 commands:

git remote prune origin

and

git fetch origin

answered Aug 05 '15 at 15:11

djangofan

3 Answers3