On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info> wrote:
Le 2012-05-02 10:32, Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna a écrit :
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info> wrote:
>
>> Le 2012-05-02 10:21, Thilina Buddika Abeyrathna a écrit :
>>> 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'
>>
>> Please show us the output of
>>
>> git remote -v show
>>
>> origin    git://github.com/thilinaa/phpmyadmin.git (fetch)
> origin    git://github.com/thilinaa/phpmyadmin.git (push)
> upstream    git://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.git (fetch)
> upstream    git://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.git (push)

Ok, try this:

git remote rm upstream
git remote add upstream https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin.git
git remote update upstream

Then, to sync from upstream:

git checkout origin/master
git merge upstream/master


when I tried 'git merge upstream/master' ,
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
------------- Aborting

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Regards.

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