#Merge a fork with original github desktop update

#Merge a fork with original 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. For information about forking on, see the web browser version of this article. You can achieve this, by hitting the “switching the base” option: You can fork a repository on or in GitHub Desktop. 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. To fetch and merge changes from the remote, one should update the Primary remote repository (origin) field on Repository -> Repository settings with the remotes link. You can use GitHub Desktop to revert a specific commit to remove its. I was having troubles understanding how Fetch origin works on GitHub Desktop, but eventually figured out that the origin here is the fork. Right-click the commit you want to revert and click Revert Changes in Commit. If you revert commits in a different order, you may see merge conflicts. To start, open the forked repo in Github. Tip: When you revert multiple commits, its best to revert in order from newest to oldest.

This also allows you to sync changes made in the original repository with the fork.

This is easy to do, but you have to know which buttons to push. You must configure a remote that points to the upstream repository in Git to sync changes you make in a fork with the original repository. When youre working from the command line, you can use the GitHub CLI to save time. GitHub CLI is an open source tool for using GitHub from your computers command line. Syncing a fork branch with the GitHub CLI. You can fork a repository on or in GitHub Desktop. I recently needed to sync a GitHub repo I forked to the latest status of the original fork. If the changes from the upstream repository cause conflicts, GitHub will prompt you to create a pull request to resolve the conflicts.