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Pull from forked repo. Updates a repository that was forked and had an approved pull request.
# source:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7244321/how-do-i-update-a-github-forked-repository
# Add the remote, call it "upstream":
git remote add upstream https://github.com/whoever/whatever.git
# Fetch all the branches of that remote into remote-tracking branches,
# such as upstream/master:
git fetch upstream
# Make sure that you're on your master branch:
git checkout master
# Rewrite your master branch so that any commits of yours that
# aren't already in upstream/master are replayed on top of that
# other branch:
git rebase upstream/master
# If you've rebased your branch onto upstream/master you may need to
# force the push in order to push it to your own forked repository on GitHub.
# You'd do that with:
git push -f origin master
# You only need to use the -f the first time after you've rebased.
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