85.21 Git Merge Upstream into Local

20210525 Suppose you have forked a repository as in Section 85.15 and there have been updates made to that repository that you want to fetch and then merge locally to your repository/ That’s simple:

$ git remote -v              # List the named remotes.
$ git fetch upstream         # Fetch any updates from the remote named upstream.
$ git merge upstream/main    # Merge any changes from the remote upstream branch.

It gets complicated if the upstream changes conflict with your changes. You can resolve the conflicts or else lodge a pull request to the upstream and get them to resolve them, but that would be impolite.



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