How to merge upstream with your Jekyll-now repository

Tags: jekyll, git

Written on January 16, 2015

Sometimes there are some updates on the upstream(original) Jekyll-now repository, and you want to apply those changes to your forked repository.

Here is how to do that:

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0. Add remote url as upstream

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now.git

Then you can see the added url:

$ git remote -v
origin  [email protected]:your-username/your-username.github.io.git (fetch)
origin  [email protected]:your-username/your-username.github.io.git (push)
upstream        https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now.git (fetch)
upstream        https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now.git (push)
$ 

1. Fetch upstream’s changes

$ git fetch upstream

2. Merge upstream

If there’s any change, merge it to your repository.

$ git merge upstream/master

When you encounter conflicts, edit those files personally and add/commit them.

3. Push to Github

You made changes to your codes, so push them to Github.

$ git push origin master

Then check your pages after some minutes.

If there were too many changes on the upstream, it may break something, so I recommend you to test yourself before pushing.

Written on January 16, 2015