Once you’ve forked and cloned a repo the following describes how to sync the local fork with the upstream remote.

Configure Remote

Check current remotes:

git remote

This will probably output origin, denoting that your repo has a single remote.

Configure a Git remote for the upstream (original) repo:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/original-project/original-project.git

Check:

git remote

# Output:
origin
upstream

Sync Local Fork with Upstream

There are now three repositories:

• local
• origin (GitHub, Bitbucket etc)
• upstream (The original repo)

Sync from upstream to local, then push changes to origin:

# fetch changes
git fetch upstream

# switch to master branch
git checkout master

# Merge changes from upstream into master
git merge upstream/master

# Push local changes to origin
git push