How do I merge my own fork with updates from the main fork

Gerben Wierda gerben.wierda at rna.nl
Sat Aug 24 10:31:26 UTC 2019


Let me add that after the commands below, I get

Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'.

I’m a bit worried about having both the port command and git update the same tree.

Gerben Wierda
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> On 24 Aug 2019, at 12:12, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
> 
> I’ve created my own git fork of macports to work on port updates (have submitted one pull request so far).
> 
> Now ether is (for me) macports/macports-ports and gctwnl/macports-ports (the one from which I’ve created a pull request).
> 
> It is not perfectly clear to me how I get the updates from macports/macports-ports back into my fork and be totally in sync.
> 
> On my local machine, I see this in my macports-ports directory:
> 
> Albus:macports-ports sysbh$ git remote -v
> origin	https://github.com/gctwnl/macports-ports.git <https://github.com/gctwnl/macports-ports.git> (fetch)
> origin	https://github.com/gctwnl/macports-ports.git <https://github.com/gctwnl/macports-ports.git> (push)
> upstream	https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git> (fetch)
> upstream	https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git> (push)
> 
> So, only my own. These are the commands I ran locally:
> 
>    14  git fetch upstream
>    15  git merge upstream/master
>    22  git push
> 
> But instead of being in sync, GitHub.com <http://github.com/> for gctwnl/macports-ports branch master says:
> 
> This branch is 6 commits ahead of macports:master.
> 
> So, I am obviously missing something.
> 
> Gerben Wierda
> Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture <http://enterprisechess.com/>
> Mastering ArchiMate <http://masteringarchimate.com/>
> Architecture for Real Enterprises <https://www.infoworld.com/blog/architecture-for-real-enterprises/> at InfoWorld
> On Slippery Ice <https://eapj.org/on-slippery-ice/> at EAPJ
> 

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