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Keeping a fork up to date
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1. Clone your fork:

git clone [email protected]:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

3. Updating your fork from original repo to keep up with their changes:

git pull upstream master
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fport commented Jan 22, 2021

Change origin

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin [email protected]:username/myapp.git

Change upstream

git remote rm upstream
git remote add upstream [email protected]:username/myapp.git

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