Mercurial - how to fetch latest changes from parent of fork?

Question

I\'ve been dabbling with Mercurial for a short while now, and I\'ve now set up several projects on BitBucket, one forking off of the other.

I\'ve been able to make chang

Answer 1

Just perform the pull with the source repository as an argument. It will pull all the changes done after your previous pull (or from the time you forked the project, if no pulls were performed).

After that you will have some additional heads, which you have to merge with your ones.

Answer 2

Here are 3 essential steps:

hg pull -u path_to_parent
hg merge
hg commit -m"updates from parent"

Or you could install fetch extension that combines all these steps:

hg fetch path_to_parent