How to merge remote master to local branch

Question

I have a local branch of a project   configUpdate   that I ve forked from somebody else s project and I ve done a load of changes on it and would like to merge the changes they ve made in to my local branch   I ve tried   git pull --rebase origin configUpdate   but it hasn t grabbed the latest changes - how can I merge the two    also for bonus points what did I do with the pull --rebase command

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I found out it was     git fetch upstream   git merge upstream master

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git rebase didn t seem to work for me  After git rebase  when I try to push changes to my local branch  I kept getting an error   hint  Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind its remote counterpart  Integrate the remote changes  e g   git pull       before pushing again    even after git pull  What finally worked for me was git merge    git checkout  lt local branch gt  git merge  lt master gt     If you are a beginner like me  here is a good article on git merge vs git rebase   https   www atlassian com git tutorials merging-vs-rebasing

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Switch to your local branch        git checkout configUpdate   Merge remote master to your branch       git rebase master configUpdate   In case you have any conflicts  correct them and for each conflicted file do the command       git add  path to file conflicted file    e g  git add app assets javascripts test js    Continue rebase       git rebase --continue

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From your feature branch  e g configUpdate  run   git fetch git rebase origin master   Or the shorter form   git pull --rebase     Why this works    git merge branchname takes new commits from the branch branchname  and adds them to the current branch   If necessary  it automatically adds a  Merge  commit on top  git rebase branchname takes new commits from the branch branchname  and inserts them  under  your changes   More precisely  it modifies the history of the current branch such that it is based on the tip of branchname  with any changes you made on top of that  git pull is basically the same as git fetch  git merge origin master  git pull --rebase is basically the same as git fetch  git rebase origin master    So why would you want to use git pull --rebase rather than git pull   Here s a simple example    You start working on a new feature  By the time you re ready to push your changes  several commits have been pushed by other developers  If you git pull  which uses merge   your changes will be buried by the new commits  in addition to an automatically-created merge commit  If you git pull --rebase instead  git will fast forward your master to upstream s  then apply your changes on top

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