On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Thilina Buddika
Abeyrathna <
thilinaabeyrathna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Alex Marin <alex.ukf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna
>> <thilinaabeyrathna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Marc,
>>> I used following command to update my git repo in GitHub.
>>>
>>> git remote add upstream
git://github.com/thilinaa/phpmyadmin.git
>>>
>>>
>>> git fetch upstream
>>>
>>> But it did not work for my repo. Please give me some suggestions.
>>
>> Hi Thilina,
>>
>> Your command adds your fork of phpmyadmin as a remote repo. I
>> assume you want to get the latest changes from the phpmyadmin
>> official repo. So you first have to add the remote phpmyadmin repo:
>> git remote add upstream
git://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.git
>> For getting the latest updates from there, you should use:
>> git pull upstream [branch] (or git fetch as you mentioned).
>>
>> And finally, if you want to push the changes to your fork, then you
have to create your fork and add it as a remote repo:
git remote add origin
git://github.com/thilinaa/phpmyadmin.git
Then, you push with
git push origin [branch]
You can also find more details at [0] and [1].
[0]
http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/
[1]
http://help.github.com/remotes/
All the best,
Alex
Hi Alex,
Thank you very much.
Alex,
I did what you asked to do. But still my fork not up to date.
Thilina,
how did you create your local repository in the first place?
using 'git clone'