Merging another branch into your project branchĬlick Choose a branch to merge into BRANCH.Ĭlick the branch you want to merge into the current branch, then click Merge BRANCH into BRANCH. The menu item Branch > Update from default Branch is not working anymore, this menu item was once named Update from MASTER. For more information, see " Addressing merge conflicts." Update from default branch is not working anymore. Click that and select the name for your forks upstream branch. Resolve any merge conflicts in your preferred way, using a text editor, the command line, or another tool. Below the list of your branches, at the bottom, theres a button called Choose a branch to merge into master. To pull any commits from the remote branch, click Pull origin or Pull origin with rebase. To check for commits on the remote branch, click Fetch origin To check for commits on the remote branch, click Fetch origin. In GitHub Desktop, use the Current Branch drop-down, and select the local branch you want to update. In GitHub Desktop, use the Current Branch drop-down, and select the local branch you want to update.
For more information, see " About Git rebase" and " Rebasing your project branch onto another branch." Pulling to your local branch from the remote By rebasing you can reorder, edit, or squash commits together. Some workflows require or benefit from rebasing instead of merging. For more information, see " Merging another branch into your project branch" and " About pull requests." To request that changes from your branch are merged into another branch, in the same repository or in another repository in the network, you can create a pull request on GitHub Desktop. Change the 'Primary remote repository' to the upstream repo you want to use. The way to work around this you can change the primary repo to the upstream repo that you want to use and then change the repo back to your own. To apply changes to your branch from another branch in the same repository, you can merge the other branch into your branch on GitHub Desktop. The Github client does not support this feature as far as I can tell. To add changes from one branch to another branch, you can merge the branches. For more information, see " Pushing changes to GitHub from GitHub Desktop." To update your branch on GitHub, you must push your changes. If you want to update your branch with what is on master you can do: git checkout your-branch-name. Merges any changes fetched into your working files. Forks are often used to iterate on ideas or changes before they are proposed back to the upstream repository, such as in open source projects or when a user does not have write access to the upstream repository.
Fetches any new changes from the original repo. A fork is a new repository that shares code and visibility settings with the original upstream repository. When you pull to your local branch, you only update your local copy of the repository. Sync and update a fork with the upstream master commits with GitHub Desktop. If the original repo you forked your project from gets updated, you can add those updates to your fork by running the following code: git fetch upstream. If you make commits from another device or if multiple people contribute to a project, you will need to sync your local branch to keep the branch updated. You can sync your local branch with the remote repository by pulling any commits that have been added to the branch on GitHub since the last time you synced.