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Syncing your fork

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List your remote repositories

    $ git remote -v
    origin  https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/openboxes.git (fetch)
    origin  https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/openboxes.git (push)

Add the upstream remote

    $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/openboxes/openboxes.git

Verify upstream remote

    $ git remote -v
    origin    https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_FORK.git (fetch)
    origin    https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_FORK.git (push)
    upstream  https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
    upstream  https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git (push)

Pull changes into your fork as upstream/master

    $ git fetch upstream
    remote: Counting objects: 4165, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (22/22), done.
    remote: Total 4165 (delta 1920), reused 1928 (delta 1918), pack-reused 2225
    Receiving objects: 100% (4165/4165), 1.83 MiB | 329.00 KiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (2728/2728), completed with 583 local objects.
    From https://github.com/openboxes/openboxes
     * [new branch]      develop    -> upstream/develop
     * [new branch]      feature/94-upgrade-to-grails-2.5.x -> upstream/feature/94-upgrade-to-grails-2.5.x
     * [new branch]      hotfix/100-improve-performance-qoh-calculation -> upstream/hotfix/100-improve-performance-qoh-calculation
     * [new branch]      hotfix/161-support-additional-languages -> upstream/hotfix/161-support-additional-languages
     * [new branch]      hotfix/163-add-health-endpoint-for-monitoring -> upstream/hotfix/163-add-health-endpoint-for-monitoring
     * [new branch]      hotfix/165-replace-inventory-with-adjustment -> upstream/hotfix/165-replace-inventory-with-adjustment
     * [new branch]      hotfix/22-override-grails-config-locations -> upstream/hotfix/22-override-grails-config-locations
     * [new branch]      master     -> upstream/master
     * [new branch]      user-guide-docs -> upstream/user-guide-docs

Checkout the branch you want to sync

This will likely either be develop or master.

    $ git checkout master

Merge upstream/master into you local master

    $ git merge upstream/master

Push changes up to your repository

    $ git push

Profit

Profit