Forking, Updating

[svkamp]

So... lets see if i got this right....

hub clone name/repo
cd repo
hub fork (creates a fork of name/repo to myname/repo

adds an origin for both...

so... how does one pull updates from the origin, and apply them to the fork then push them to myname/repo ???

its a bit confusing

[mislav]

Hub encourages the "triangular" workflow with git, where you fetch from one remote (hub calls it "origin" by default, but some people name it "upstream") and push it to another remote (typically your fork).

Therefore:

# fetch latest "master" branch from upstream:
$ git fetch origin master

# merge in latest upstream updates to your "feature" branch:
$ git merge origin/master

# push your "feature" branch to your fork:
$ hub fork
$ git push -u svkamp HEAD

# open a pull request with these changes:
$ hub pull-request

[waldyrious]

@mislav it looks like @svkamp was asking about the particular task of updating a fork with changes from upstream, rather than about the generic triangular workflow.

I'd say this would be equivalent to running hub sync with the additional step (which you alluded to in #1265) of pushing the updated branches to the fork's remote (e.g. git push --all waldyrious).

I suppose adding a --push option to hub sync to push the branches would address this use case.

[mislav]

@waldyrious If you'd like to propose enchancements to the hub sync command, please open a new issue, detailing how you think the feature could work. For instance: should it only push already published branched, or push even unpublished ones too?