I created the fork of some GitHub project. Then I created new branch and did a patch inside of that branch. I sent the pull request to author and he applied my patch and added some commits later. How can I synchronize my fork on GitHub with original project now? Am I to delete my fork on GitHub and create new fork for each my patch each time?
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Possible duplicate of [How do I update a GitHub forked repository?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7244321/how-do-i-update-a-github-forked-repository) – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Jun 16 '18 at 21:44
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You don't need to refork again. Just add a remote (say, upstream) and fetch upstream to update your cloned repository.
$ git remote add upstream <original-repo-url>
$ git fetch upstream # update local with upstream
$ git diff HEAD..upstream/master # see diffs between local and upstream/master (if there is no diff then both are in sync)
$ git pull upstream master # pull upstream's master into local branch
$ git push origin HEAD # push to your forked repo's remote branch
Fetch/get the original repo's new tags:
$ git fetch upstream --tags # get original repo's tags
$ git push origin --tags # push to forked repo
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@eastwater to sync the tags: `git fetch upstream --tags; git push origin --tags` – Sajib Khan May 16 '22 at 21:42
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if you want to push only one tag then try this: `$ git push origin refs/tags/
` – Sajib Khan May 17 '22 at 13:40