Updating a Fork - Carleton-SRCL/SPOT GitHub Wiki

To update a fork, complete the following steps (note that depending on your local changes, merging may not be this simple. You may need to do a clean fork, and add in your changes as required).

  1. Open the GitHub website, and navigate to the forked repository that you want to have merged with the main repository. Below the "Code" button should be a button to "Fetch upstream"; click this button, then click "Fetch and Merge":

Git Fork Update

  1. If the merge was successful, you should receive the following message:

Git Fork Success

That's all that is required to update your fork to receive the latest bug fixes and software features.