On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info> wrote:
Le 2012-05-02 10:04, Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna a écrit :
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna <
> thilinaabeyrathna@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Alex Marin <alex.ukf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna
>>> <thilinaabeyrathna@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 first
>>> 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'
--
Regards.

Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna,
Department of Computer Engineering,
Faculty Of Engineering,
University of Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka.