Re: Please provide a one-liner for syncing with the original/source project
On 17/11/19 03:56PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> One of my common workflows is, clone a open source project like Git,
> OpenSSL, etc. Then make some changes and push my changes to my clone.
> And maybe submit a pull request to the original/source project. After
> the initial clone my project becomes out-of-sync with the project of
> interest.
>
> I have to do something special to get my copy of the project back
> in-sync with the original/source project. It is not trivial to get
> back in sync. It takes three or four separate commands if all goes
> well. And in my case, I have to look up the instructions because they
> are not ingrained in memory (like
> https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/syncing-a-fork).
FWIW, these multiple steps can be replaced by 'git pull upstream
master', assuming you have 'master' checked out locally.
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> This sync workflow is so common Git should be providing it. Anyone who
> has cloned from GitHub, GitLab, etc needs it. Folks should not need to
> do special things for common workflows. When sites like GitHub and
> GitLab are providing explicit instructions to sync with the
> original/source project should signal it is common and people need it.
>
> I'd like a one-line command to resync with the original or source
> project (and not my clone). I think a 'git sync' command would be a
> good addition to the Git tools.
What would 'git sync' do that 'git pull upstream' or 'git pull --rebase
upstream' can not do?
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> It would be nice if sites like GitHub would value add the ' upstream =
> ...' to a .git/config, but that is not Git's problem. I'll settle for
> manually adding upstream so 'git sync' just works.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>