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This is a follow up to the question Is it possible to fork a public GitHub repo into an enterprise repository?

I want to fork the public project github.com/foo.git and work on it on my enterprise server, under the name github.enterprise.com/bar.git. However, I want to keep them linked so I can pull any changes on the master. In other words, I am going to create some new codes and edits in my enterprise bar.git, but whenever the authors of foo.git update their master repo, I want to pull those changes. So I followed the following steps.

  1. Create an empty repository on github.enterprise.com/bar.git
  2. Fork github.com/foo.git on my public GitHub account github.com/MyPublic/foo.git
  3. Rename my public repo as to bar.git so it's github.com/MyPublic/bar.git

  4. Create a bare clone of my new fork on my computer

    git clone --bare https://github.com/MyPlublic/bar.git

  5. Change directories into the bare clones folder:

    cd bar.git/

  6. Push the repository with the --mirror flag to my enterprise GitHub

    git push --mirror https://github.enterprise.com/bar.git git remote set-url --push origin https://github.enterprise.com/bar.git

Now I have the bar.git/ directory on my computer, which is BARE:master and not an editable version of the repo. I have bar.git repos on my personal public GitHub.com account and on my Enterprise server. The next things I need to do are (1) clone the enterprise repo onto my computer and edit it; (2) commit and push those changes to the enterprise repo; and (3) I also want to pull changes from the master foo.git repo when they happen.

I'm assuming I just do a standard clone, commit, and push for (1) and (2), i.e. 

 git clone GitHub.enterprise.com/bar.git
 git commit
 git push

Is it actually possible to do #3? I'm thinking that in my computer's bar.git/ directory, I execute 

 git fetch -p origin
 git push --mirror

and then in the bar/ directory, I execute a standard git pull?

AstroBen
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