I made the fork of a project, made the changes, made the push to my repository in Github and there I generated a pull request for the repo of the original project.
After a few days I decided to make a new contribution, however, the original repository has already undergone several updates. What should I do?
I thought about: adding the remote from the original repository and doing a pull, is this correct? I did get tested but it does not seem to have pulled the latest content.
Would that be it?
In your local clone of your repository, fork , you can add the original GitHub repository as remote . remote s are like nicknames for the URLs of the repositories - for example, origin is one of them. So you can use git fetch to bring all the branches of that repository into < in> upstream , and git rebase to continue working on your version. The sequence of commands would look something like this:
# Adiciona o remote, chamando-o de "upstream":
git remote add upstream https://github.com/usuario/projeto.git
# Traz todas as branches daquele remote para remote-tracking branches,
# como por exemplo upstream/master:
git fetch upstream
# Garantindo que você esta na branch master:
git checkout master
# Rescreve sua master branch para que quaisquer commits seus que
# ainda não estão na upstream/master sejam replicados no topo daquela
# outra branch
git rebase upstream/master
If you "overflowed" your branch to upstream/master you might need to force push to get the push to its own repository that was made fork in GitHub.
git push -f #irá forçar o push
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