GitHub设置fork仓库和原始仓库同步

问题描述

最近fork了一个翻译项目Linux中国翻译项目(LCTT),准备用自己的业余时间为社区贡献点自己的力量,发现这个原始仓库比较活跃,经常出现fork仓库比原始仓库落后的情况:

可以看出该仓库已经落后30个提交了,因此,为了避免长时间不同步原始仓库导致后面的PR可能发生冲突等其它问题,需要手动定期同步下fork仓库。

配置fork仓库和原始(上游)仓库同步

下面配置该fork仓库原始仓库的同步:
1.本地fork仓库配置upstream地址
默认情况下clone的仓库只有两个远程地址,用来fetch和push时使用:

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$ git remote -v
origin github:qianghaohao/TranslateProject.git (fetch)
origin github:qianghaohao/TranslateProject.git (push)

为了和原始(上游)仓库同步,我们还需要为该仓库配一个upstream地址,用来同步时使用,配置方法如下:

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# git remote add upstream后面添加要同步的原始仓库地址
git remote add upstream git@github.com:LCTT/TranslateProject.git
# 重新查看远程仓库配置,发现upstream已经配置成功
git remote -v
origin github:qianghaohao/TranslateProject.git (fetch)
origin github:qianghaohao/TranslateProject.git (push)
upstream git@github.com:LCTT/TranslateProject.git (fetch)
upstream git@github.com:LCTT/TranslateProject.git (push)

2.从上游分支fetch最新更改
本示例仓库只有一个master分支,所以在这里只同步下master分支。fetch后会将该分支的上游更新存储到新的本地分支upstream/master:

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# 可以看出fetch后在本地生成了新的本地分支:upstream/master
$ git fetch upstream
remote: Counting objects: 139, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 139 (delta 73), reused 73 (delta 73), pack-reused 62
Receiving objects: 100% (139/139), 58.17 KiB | 5.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (73/73), completed with 17 local objects.
From github.com:LCTT/TranslateProject
* [new branch] master -> upstream/master

3.合并上一步本地fetch得到的分支到本地相应分支

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$ git merge upstream/master
Updating db2c3cc..0175778
Fast-forward
published/20171016 Using the Linux find command with caution.md | 97 ++++++++++++++++++
published/20171117 How to Install and Use Docker on Linux.md | 165 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
published/20171228 Dual Boot Ubuntu And Arch Linux.md | 422 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
published/20180118 Getting Started with ncurses.md | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
published/20180202 Which Linux Kernel Version Is Stable.md | 59 +++++++++++
{translated/tech => published}/20180206 Save Some Battery On Our Linux Machines With TLP.md | 24 ++---
sources/talk/20180214 How to Encrypt Files with Tomb on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.md | 4 +-

4.push合并后的修改到远程fork仓库,完成同步

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$ git push
Counting objects: 139, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (77/77), done.
Writing objects: 100% (139/139), 51.50 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 139 (delta 69), reused 126 (delta 62)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (69/69), completed with 12 local objects.
To github:qianghaohao/TranslateProject.git
db2c3cc..0175778 master -> master

可以看出远程fork仓库已经是最新的,和原始仓库保持一致:

参考文章

https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/
http://wiki.jikexueyuan.com/project/github-basics/fork-synced.html