How to ensure that forks are updated whenever the master is updated.

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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

Adding syncing through the web interface:

* Get the URL for the master repository
* Nex to the green button at the top click the button "branch master" button with the drop down.
* Insert the URL of the master respoitory in the input box provided and hit enter
* Now whenever there is an update to the master repository you will see a notification and you can pull the updates to either merge them or overwrite your repository