For every repo I fork I usually add a remote named upstream pointing to the original. So then, whenever I need to get my copy up to date with upstream it's:

For every repo I fork I usually add a remote named upstream pointing to the original. So then, whenever I need to get my copy up to date with upstream it's: update = !git fetch upstream && git merge upstream/master' It's probably easily changed to make the branch configurable, but I have only ever needed this with master.