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Keeping a fork up to date

TODO

Add instructions here to begin the contribution process

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

4. After makeing changes push to your remote repo

git push
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I use 'master' in the example for pulling from the original repo, but you could pull from any branch.

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