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Keeping your fork up to date.md

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:USERNAME/FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-USERNAME/ORIGINAL-REPO.git
git fetch upstream

3. Updating your fork from original repo to keep up with their changes:

git pull upstream master
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