How to Sync a Fork

Syncing a local git repository fork with the upstream main repo.

• In the working directory of the repository
• Fetch branches and commits from upstream repo.
  • eg. git fetch upstream
• Check out the fork’s local default branch ie main
  • git checkout main
• Merge the changes from the upstream default branch ie upstream/main
  • git merge upstream/main

📝 Note: this only syncs the local copy of the repo, you still have to push to remote if you want to update the repo in VCS