git: Pulling from master

[Willem Ferguson]

>From phone. Thank you everyone. I am finally github - able. Took large
chunk of my day but it was worth it. Kind regards, Willem

On 17 Nov 2017 17:53, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:


> On Nov 17, 2017, at 7:51 AM, Willem Ferguson <
willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
>
> On 17/11/2017 17:38, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>
>> And just in case that isn't obvious - there really isn't a huge need to
keep the 'master' in your fork in sync with upstream. You can always just
pull from upstream on your local machine.

> But I can only issue a PR from my fork on Github. Therefore my Github
fork should contain an up-to-date master with my change that I wish to have
pulled. Is this correct?

Actually, GitHub doesn't care if YOUR master is up to date. If you push a
branch on which you worked to GitHub, it will offer to you to create a PR
against master of the upstream project which you forked.

/D

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