If someone forks a gist and you'd like to merge their changes. Do this:
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clone your repo, I use the name of the gist
git clone git://gist.github.com/1163142.git gist-1163142
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add a remote for the forked gist, I'm using the name of my fellow developer
git remote add aaron git://gist.github.com/1164196.git
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pull and merge the new remote into master
git pull aaron master
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push the changes
git push
This doesn't seem quite right. In case it's helpful to anyone else, I add to use a
:
instead of a/
between the domain and the repository, i.e.: