Pull new updates from original GitHub repository into forked GitHub repository

Question

I forked someone\'s repository on GitHub and would like to update my version with commits and updates made in the original repository. These were made after I forked my copy

Answer 1

If you're using the GitHub desktop application, there is a synchronise button on the top right corner. Click on it then Update from <original repo> near top left.

If there are no changes to be synchronised, this will be inactive.

Here are some screenshots to make this easy.

Answer 2

In addition to VonC's answer, you could tweak it to your liking even further.

After fetching from the remote branch, you would still have to merge the commits. I would replace

$ git fetch upstream

with

$ git pull upstream master

since git pull is essentially git fetch + git merge.