Create local git repository based on local repository based on github repository and keep it updated

Question

I have some basic git knowledge but I\'m not sure how to accomplish this.

I am trying to clone (?) github WordPress starter theme underscores. The idea is to create a ba

Answer 1

The goal is to keep everything updated with any underscores update, while changing and modifying the framework and the themes

That is called the triangular workflow:

• fork (see "Fork a Repo") the repo automattic/_s

• clone that fork locally,

  git clone /url/my/fork myfork
  

• add as remote upstream the original repo

  cd myfork
  git remote add upstream https://github.com/automattic/_s
  

From there, with git 2.9 or more, configure:

git config --global pull.rebase true
git config --global rebase.autoStash true

Finally, each time you want to update your branches (where you modify your own version of the original repo), do a

git checkout mybranch
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/master

Then you can merge that updated branch (after testing it) to your other repos my_theme1, my_theme2, cloned from myfork.

cd my_theme1
git fetch
git merge origin/mybranch

If you want to work locally only, you can skip the fork step and clone directly the original repo.