Git Pull from other remote

Question

I have created a fork from a project on GitHub  How can I now pull changes from the project that I forked from

User · Accepted Answer

git pull is really just a shorthand for git pull  lt remote gt   lt branchname gt   in most cases it s equivalent to git pull origin master  You will need to add another remote and pull explicitly from it  This page describes it in detail   http   help github com forking

User · Answer

upstream in the github example is just the name they ve chosen to refer to that repository   You may choose any that you like when using git remote add   Depending on what you select for this name  your git pull usage will change   For example  if you use   git remote add upstream git   github com somename original-project git  then you would use this to pull changes   git pull upstream master  But  if you choose origin for the name of the remote repo  your commands would be   To name the remote repo in your local config  git remote add origin git   github com somename original-project git  And to pull  git pull origin master

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