Pulling changes into a Github fork from the original repository

Jamie Hill October 16, 2011

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If you maintain your own ongoing fork of a project on Github, you will inevitably want to pull in changes from the originator’s repository. Here’s how I usually go about it.
First add the other guy’s repository to your list of remotes:

cd my-fork
git remote add other-guy https://github.com/other-guy/other-guys-repo.git

If you were to then list your remotes, you would have something like:

origin
other-guy

Now it’s just a case of pulling from the relevant branch on their repo, in this case ‘master’:

git pull other-guy master

Hope that saves someone some time.