How git forking works?

Question

So I am signed in github and I fork a project . Will my forked repo get updated everytime the original repo updates ? Or should I do forking from the original repo everytime so

Answer 1

Will my forked repo get updated everytime the original repo updates

No. Fetching from the original repo from time to time is completely up to you. You can easily do it at your local repo (by convention, the original remote is called upstream while the fork remote is called origin).