I have a github profile and I forked someone's repository into mine. and locally I have cloned this repository using
git clone https://github.com/my-github-page/repo-name
Now, since some time has passed the original repo owner has update his repo, but mine is behind. So, if I would like to do git pull
to merge his changes into mine. But I would like to push my changes from local to mine.
In simple terms, if I do git remote show origin
I get this:
[root@localhost xxx]# git remote show origin
* remote origin
Fetch URL: https://github.com/my-github-profile/xxx
Push URL: https://github.com/my-github-profile/xxx
HEAD branch: master
Remote branches:
1.0 tracked
master tracked
system_tests tracked
Local branch configured for 'git pull':
master merges with remote master
Local ref configured for 'git push':
master pushes to master (up to date)
Now I want to change the FETCH URL to the original src of the repo. Because the original is updated but my fork is behind
You can try:
git remote set-url origin /original/repo
git remote set-url --push origin /your/fork
That way, only fetch references the original repo URL.
The other more traditional approach, of course, is to declare another remote, as I detailed in "What is the difference between origin and upstream on GitHub?"